[Machine] "And Ibn Abi Layla said, 'I do not know, perhaps it could be severe, so he would be slapped without it being as harsh, or it could be less severe than that.' The scholar said, 'The jurists of the lands have agreed that there is no punishment in it, due to the saying of Allah, "And for you in legal retribution, there is life" [Al-Baqarah 179]. And legal retribution is equality and similarity, and considering equality between the two slaps is difficult. And Allah knows best. And it has been narrated to us in the chapter of killing the Imam and injuring him what suggests the obligation of legal retribution in striking with a wooden stick or a whip, and that is understood by them to occur from a wound or injury that can be considered for similarity in it. That has been narrated in some of those reports, or it could be understood that he has seen his punishment by doing to him what is similar to his action. And Allah knows best."  

وَقَالَ وَابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى لَا أَعْرِفُ لَعَلَّهَا تَكُونُ شَدِيدَةً فَيُلْطَمُ دُونَهَا وَتَكُونُ دُونَهَا فَيُلْطَمُ أَشَدَّ مِنْهَا قَالَ الشَّيْخُ فُقَهَاءُ الْأَمْصَارِ عَلَى أَنْ لَا قَوَدَ فِيهَا لِقَوْلِ اللهِ تَعَالَى {وَلَكُمْ فِي الْقِصَاصِ حَيَاةٌ} [البقرة 179] وَالْقِصَاصُ هُوَ الْمُسَاوَاةُ وَالْمُمَاثَلَةُ وَاعْتِبَارُ الْمُسَاوَاةِ فِيمَا بَيْنَ اللَّطْمَتَيْنِ مُتَعَذِّرٌ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ وَرُوِّينَا فِي بَابِ قَتْلِ الْإِمَامِ وَجَرْحِهِ مَا يُوهِمُ وُجُوبَ الْقِصَاصِ فِي الضَّرْبِ بِالْخَشَبَةِ وَالسَّوْطِ وَذَلِكَ مَحْمُولٌ عِنْدَهُمْ عَلَى حُصُولِ شَجَّةٍ أَوْ جُرْحٍ بِهَا يُمْكِنُ اعْتِبَارُ الْمُمَاثَلَةِ فِيهَا فَقَدْ رُوِيَ ذَلِكَ فِي بَعْضِ تِلْكَ الْأَخْبَارِ أَوْ يَكُونُ مَحْمُولًا عَلَى أَنَّهُ رَأَى تَعْزِيرَهُ بِأَنْ يَفْعَلَ بِهِ مِنْ جِنْسِ فِعْلِهِ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ