Book 86: Prescribed Punishments (Hudud)
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Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Uqail, Uqail from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Abu Bakr bin Abdur Rahman (bin Harith), Abu Bakr from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “When the adulterer commits adultery, he does not commit adultery while he is a believer; and when someone drinks wine, he does not drink wine while he is a believer; and when someone steals, he does not steal while he is a believer; and he does not, while being a believer, commit such plunder that people raise their eyes towards him because of it.” And the same is narrated from Ibn Shihab. He narrated from Sa'id bin Musayyab and Abu Salamah, both of them from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), Hazrat Abu Hurairah from the Prophet (saw). Its words too are the same, (except for) illan nuhbah, that is, except for the plunder.
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Hafs bin Umar narrated to us that Hisham (Dastuwa'i) told us. He narrated from Qatadah, Qatadah from Hazrat Anas (ra), that the Prophet (saw) ... And Adam (bin Abi Iyas) also narrated to us that Shu'bah told us. Qatadah narrated to us. Qatadah narrated from Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra) that the Prophet (saw) had (a man) beaten with a stick and with shoes for drinking wine, and Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) had forty lashes given.
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Qutaibah (bin Sa'id) narrated to us that Abdul Wahhab (Thaqafi) told us. He narrated from Ayyub, Ayyub from Ibn Abi Mulaikah, Ibn Abi Mulaikah from Hazrat Uqbah bin Harith (ra). He said: Nu'aiman, or the son of Nu'aiman, was brought in a state of drunkenness, and the Prophet (saw) ordered the people who were in the house to beat him. Hazrat Uqbah (ra) used to say: They beat him, and I too was among those who beat him with shoes.
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Sulaiman bin Harb narrated to us that Wuhaib bin Khalid told us. He narrated from Ayyub, Ayyub from Abdullah bin Abi Mulaikah, Abdullah from Hazrat Uqbah bin Harith (ra), that Nu'aiman, or the son of Nu'aiman, was brought to the Prophet (saw), and he was intoxicated. This greatly displeased him (saw), and he (saw) ordered the people who were in the house to beat him, and they beat him with sticks and shoes, and I too was among those who beat him.
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Muslim (bin Ibrahim) narrated to us that Hisham (Dastuwa'i) told us. Qatadah narrated to us. Qatadah narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) had (a man) beaten with a stick and with shoes because of wine, and Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) had forty lashes given.
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Qutaibah (bin Sa'id) narrated to us that Abu Damrah Anas (bin Iyad) told us. He narrated from Yazid bin Had, Yazid from Muhammad bin Ibrahim, he from Abu Salamah, Abu Salamah from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra). He said that a man who had drunk wine was brought to the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “Beat him.” Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) used to say: Among us was one who was beating with his hand, one who was beating with his shoe, and one who was beating with his garment. When he turned to go, one of the people said: “May Allah disgrace you.” He (saw) said: “Do not say so. Do not help Satan to gain control over him.”
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Abdullah bin Abdul Wahhab narrated to us that Khalid bin Harith told us. Sufyan (Thauri) narrated to us. Abu Hasin (Uthman bin Asim Asadi) told us: I heard Umair bin Sa'id Nakha'i. He used to say: I heard Hazrat Ali bin Abi Talib (ra). He said: If I inflict a legal punishment on anyone and he dies, I would feel no grief in myself, except for the drunkard, for if he dies I would pay his blood money; and that is because the Messenger of Allah (saw) did not fix any (such) punishment for it.
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Makki bin Ibrahim narrated to us. He narrated from Ju'aid (bin Abdur Rahman), Ju'aid from Yazid bin Khusaifah, Yazid from Sa'ib bin Yazid. He said: In the time of the Messenger of Allah (saw), in the Khilafat of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) and at the beginning of the Khilafat of Hazrat Umar (ra), when a drunkard was brought to us, we would rise up to punish him. We would beat him with our hands, our shoes and our sheets. When it was the last period of Hazrat Umar's (ra) Khilafat, he had forty lashes given. When people became rebellious and went beyond the commandments of Allah, he began to have eighty lashes given.
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Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told me. He said: Khalid bin Yazid told me. Khalid narrated from Sa'id bin Abi Hilal, Sa'id from Zaid bin Aslam, Zaid from his father, his father from Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (ra), that in the time of the Prophet (saw) there was a man whose name was Abdullah, and he was called by the nickname Himar, and he used to make the Messenger of Allah (saw) laugh; and the Prophet (saw) had also had him flogged for wine. One day he was brought. He (saw) ordered him to be punished, and he was flogged. One man among the people said: “O Allah, keep him far from Your mercy. How many times he has been seized and brought!” The Prophet (saw) said: “Do not curse him. By Allah, I know only that he loves Allah and His Messenger.”
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Ali bin Abdullah bin Ja'far narrated to us that Anas bin Iyad told us. (Abdullah) bin Had narrated to us. He narrated from Muhammad bin Ibrahim, Muhammad bin Ibrahim from Abu Salamah (bin Abdur Rahman), Abu Salamah from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra). He used to say that a drunkard was brought to the Prophet (saw). He (saw) ordered him to be beaten. Among us was one who was beating him with his hand, among us was one who was beating him with his shoe, and among us was one who was beating him with his garment. When he turned to go, a man said: “What is the matter with him? May Allah disgrace him.” The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Do not be helpers of Satan against your brother.”
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Amr bin Ali (Fallas) narrated to me that Abdullah bin Dawud told us. Fudail bin Ghazwan narrated to us. Fudail narrated from Ikrimah, Ikrimah from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “When the adulterer commits adultery, he does not commit adultery in a state of being a believer, and when a man steals, he does not steal in a state of being a believer.”
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Umar bin Hafs bin Ghiyath narrated to us that my father told me. A'mash narrated to us. A'mash said: I heard Abu Salih. He narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “May Allah keep the thief far from His mercy: he steals an egg and his hand is cut off, and he steals a rope and his hand is cut off.” A'mash said: People understood that by baidah (egg) is meant an iron helmet, and by habl (rope) they understood a rope worth several dirhams.
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Muhammad bin Yusuf narrated to us that Ibn Uyainah told us. He narrated from Zuhri, Zuhri from Abu Idris Khaulani, and he from Hazrat Ubadah bin Samit (ra). He said: We were with the Prophet (saw) in a gathering. He (saw) said: “Pledge allegiance to me that you will not associate anything with Allah, nor steal, nor commit adultery.” And he (saw) recited this whole verse (“O Prophet! when believing women come to thee, taking the oath of allegiance at thy hands ...” (Qur’an 60:13)). “So whoever of you fulfils this covenant, his reward is with Allah; and whoever commits any of these sins and is punished for it, that punishment will be an expiation for his sin; and whoever commits any of these sins and Allah conceals it, then if He wills, He will forgive him, concealing it, and if He wills, He will punish him.”
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Muhammad bin Abdullah narrated to me that Asim bin Ali told us. Asim bin Muhammad narrated to us. Asim narrated from Waqid bin Muhammad. (He said:) I heard my father (Muhammad bin Zaid bin Abdullah bin Umar) say that Hazrat Abdullah (ra) said: At the Farewell Pilgrimage (Hajjat-ul-Wada) the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Listen, which month is it that you regard as the greatest in sanctity?” The people said: “Is it not this month of ours?” He (saw) said: “Tell me, which city is it that you regard as the greatest in sanctity?” The people said: “Is it not this city of ours?” He (saw) said: “Tell me, which day is it that you regard as the greatest in sanctity?” The people said: “Is it not this day of ours?” He (saw) said: “Then listen. Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, has made your blood, your property and your honour sacred for you, just as this day of yours is sacred in this city of yours in this month of yours, except by lawful right. Listen, have I conveyed?” He (saw) said this three times, and each time the people gave him (saw) the same answer: “Why not, yes (you have conveyed).” He (saw) said: “Woe to you,” or he (saw) said: “Alas for you, do not become disbelievers again after me, striking off one another's necks.”
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Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Uqail, Uqail from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Urwah, Urwah from Hazrat Aishah (ra). She used to say: Whenever the Prophet (saw) was given a choice between two things, he (saw) chose the easier of them, provided that it was not a sin. If it was a sin, he (saw) was the farthest of all people from it. By Allah, he (saw) never took revenge for himself in any matter that was done to him (saw). But when the sanctities of Allah were violated, then he (saw) took revenge for the sake of Allah.
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Abul Walid narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Urwah, Urwah from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that Hazrat Usamah (bin Zaid (ra)) interceded with the Prophet (saw) concerning a woman. He (saw) said: “Those who were before you were destroyed only because they used to carry out the punishment on the lowly and let the high-ranking go. By Him in Whose hand is my life, if Fatimah (ra) had done this, I would certainly have cut off her hand too.”
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Sa'id bin Sulaiman narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Urwah, Urwah from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that the Makhzumi woman who had committed theft had caused the Quraish great concern, and they said: “Who will speak about this to the Messenger of Allah (saw), and who will dare to do so before him (saw), except Usamah (ra), who is beloved of the Messenger of Allah (saw)?” So Usamah (ra) spoke to the Messenger of Allah (saw). He (saw) said: “Do you intercede concerning one of the limits (hudud) laid down by Allah?” After this he (saw) stood up and addressed the people. He (saw) said: “O people, those who were before you went astray only because it was their habit that when a person of rank stole, they let him go, and when a poor person among them stole, they carried out the punishment on him. By Allah, even if Fatimah (ra), the daughter of Muhammad (saw), were to steal, Muhammad would cut off her hand too.”
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Abdullah bin Maslamah narrated to us that Ibrahim bin Sa'd told us. He narrated from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Amrah, Amrah from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that the Prophet (saw) said: “The hand is to be cut off for stealing a quarter of a dinar or more.” (Like Ibrahim bin Sa'd,) Abdur Rahman bin Khalid, Zuhri's nephew and Ma'mar also narrated it from Zuhri.
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Isma'il bin Abi Uwais narrated to us. He narrated from Ibn Wahb, Ibn Wahb from Yunus, Yunus from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Urwah bin Zubair and Amrah, both of them from Hazrat Aishah (ra), Hazrat Aishah (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “The thief's hand is to be cut off even for a quarter of a dinar.”
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Imran bin Maisarah narrated to us that Abdul Warith told us. Husain (Mu'allim) narrated to us. Husain narrated from Yahya bin Abi Kathir, Yahya from Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman Ansari, he from Amrah bint Abdur Rahman, that Amrah related to him that Hazrat Aishah (ra) told her: It is narrated from the Prophet (saw) that he (saw) said: “The hand is to be cut off even for a quarter of a dinar.”
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