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bayhaqi:17526Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kārizī > ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Abū ʿUbayd > Abū al-Naḍr > Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah > Thābit > Abū Rāfiʿ > ʿUmar > Utī Bishārib > Laʾabʿathannak > a man Lā Taʾkhudhuh Fīk Hawādah Fabaʿath Bih > Muṭīʿ b. al-Aswad al-ʿAdawī > Idhā

[Machine] If you wake up tomorrow, strike him with the limit. Umar came and he struck him severely. He said, "You killed the man, how many times did you strike him?" He said, "Sixty." He said, "Reduce it by twenty." Abu Ubaid said, "Reduce it by twenty." He says, "Make the severity of this strike be reduced by twenty, which remains in this conversation of jurisprudence that striking a drunkard is a light strike, and that he did not strike him while he was drunk until he woke up. Didn't you hear his saying when you wake up tomorrow, strike him with the limit?" The Sheikh said, may Allah have mercy on him, "And in it is that exceeding forty is punishment and not a limit."  

البيهقي:١٧٥٢٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الْكَارِزِيُّ أنبأ عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو النَّضْرِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ ؓ أَنَّهُ أُتِيَ بِشَارِبٍ فَقَالَ لَأَبْعَثَنَّكَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ لَا تَأْخُذُهُ فِيكَ هَوَادَةٌ فَبَعَثَ بِهِ إِلَى مُطِيعِ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ الْعَدَوِيِّ فَقَالَ

إِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ غَدًا فَاضْرِبْهُ الْحَدَّ فَجَاءَ عُمَرُ ؓ وَهُوَ يَضْرِبُهُ ضَرْبًا شَدِيدًا فَقَالَ قَتَلْتَ الرَّجُلَ كَمْ ضَرَبْتَهُ؟ قَالَ سِتِّينَ قَالَ أَقِصَّ عَنْهُ بِعِشْرِينَ قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدٍ أَقِصَّ عَنْهُ بِعِشْرِينَ يَقُولُ اجْعَلْ شِدَّةَ هَذَا الضَّرْبِ الَّذِي ضَرَبْتَهُ قِصَاصًا بِالْعِشْرِينَ الَّتِي بَقِيَتْ فِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ مِنَ الْفِقْهِ أَنَّ ضَرْبَ الشَّارِبِ ضَرْبٌ خَفِيفٌ وَفِيهِ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَضْرِبْهُ فِي سُكْرِهِ حَتَّى أَفَاقَ أَلَمْ تَسْمَعْ قَوْلَهُ إِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ غَدًا فَاضْرِبْهُ الْحَدَّ؟ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ وَفِيهِ أَنَّ الزِّيَادَةَ عَلَى الْأَرْبَعِينَ تَعْزِيرٌ وَلَيْسَتْ بِحَدٍّ