Did the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) order the killing of the Coptic man based on conjecture or people's talk in the Hadith: "The witness sees what the absent one does not see"?

The summary of the fatwa is that the Prophet's (peace be upon him) command to kill the man accused of having an affair with his concubine, Maria the Copt, was not a hadd (prescribed punishment) for adultery, but rather a ta'zir (discretionary punishment) for his audacity in entering the chamber of his concubine and bringing an accusation into the Prophet's household, which is a great harm that permits the shedding of the aggressor's blood.

This matter has been perplexing to many, but scholars have clarified that this hadith does not detail all aspects of the story, and that the command to kill was a ta'zir, not a hadd. It was later revealed that the man was innocent of the indecency, which removed the justification for killing him.

It is also possible that the man violated the Prophet's (peace be upon him) prohibition against speaking to her, or that he was a hypocrite, or that the command to kill him was conditional on Ali finding him with Maria in a state that warranted killing, which did not occur.