20. Penalty for Drinking Intoxicants
٢٠۔ كِتَابُ الْحَدِّ فِي الْخَمْرِ
[Machine] "Stand up, O Hasan, and whip him! And what are you and this (person) for other than yourself?" He said, "Rather, I am weak and feeble, and I am unable." "Stand up, O Abdullah ibn Ja'far, and whip him," he said. So he began to whip him and Ali kept count until it reached forty, then he said, "Hold the whip of the Prophet of Allah ﷺ , Abu Bakr forty (lashes), and complete it eighty with Umar, and each (lash) is a Sunnah."
«قُمْ يَا حَسَنُ فَاجْلِدْهُ وَفِيمَ أَنْتَ وَهَذَا وَلِّ غَيْرُكَ» قَالَ بَلْ ضَعُفْتُ وَوَهَنْتُ وَعَجَزْتُ قُمْ يَا عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ فَاجْلِدْهُ قَالَ فَجَعَلَ يَجْلِدُهُ وَعَلِيٌّ يَعُدُّ حَتَّى بَلَغَ أَرْبَعِينَ فَقَالَ أَمْسِكْ جَلَدَ نَبِيُّ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ أَرْبَعِينَ وَكَمَّلَهَا عُمَرُ ثَمَانِينَ وَكُلٌّ سُنَّةٌ
“When Walid bin ʿUqbah was brought to ʿUthman, they had testified against him. He said to 'Ali: 'You are close to your uncle's son, so carry out the legal punishment on him.' So 'Ali whipped him. He said: 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave forty lashes, and Abu Bakr gave forty lashes, and 'Umar gave eighty all are Sunnah.'” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2571)
قَالَ عَلِيٌّ «جَلَدَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَرْبَعِينَ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ أَرْبَعِينَ وَعُمَرُ ثَمَانِينَ وَكُلٌّ سُنَّةٌ»
If I carried out the hadd punishment on a man and he died, I would not feel upset, except in the case of khamr; if (such a man) died, I would pay the diyah (to his family) because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not prescribe it (did not specify a particular number of lashes). (Using translation from Aḥmad 1024)
قَالَ عَلِيٌّ مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ أَقَمْتُ عَلَيْهِ حَدًّا فَمَاتَ فَأَجِدُ فِي نَفْسِي إِلَّا الْخَمْرَ فَإِنَّهُ إِنْ مَاتَ فِيهِ وَدَيْتُهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «لَمْ يَسُنَّهُ»
[Machine] I heard Ali say, "Whoever we establish a limit for and they die as a result of it, they do not have any compensation except for the one we have struck in the matter of alcohol, as it is something we have created."
سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا يَقُولُ «مَنْ أَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ حَدًّا فَمَاتَ مِنْهُ فَلَا دِيَةَ لَهُ إِلَّا مَنْ ضَرَبْنَاهُ فِي الْخَمْرِ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ شَيْءٌ صَنَعْنَاهُ»