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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah curses a man who steals an egg and gets his hand cut off, or steals a rope and
gets his hands cut off.” Al-A`mash said, “People used to interpret the Baida as an iron helmet, and
they used to think that the rope may cost a few dirhams.”

During the lifetime of the Prophet (ﷺ) there was a man called `Abdullah whose nickname was Donkey,
and he used to make Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) laugh. The Prophet (ﷺ) lashed him because of drinking (alcohol).
And one-day he was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) on the same charge and was lashed. On that, a man among
the people said, “O Allah, curse him ! How frequently he has been brought (to the Prophet (ﷺ) on such a
charge)!” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Do not curse him, for by Allah, I know for he loves Allah and His
Apostle.”

A drunk was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he ordered him to be beaten (lashed). Some of us beat him
with our hands, and some with their shoes, and some with their garments (twisted in the form of a
lash). When that drunk had left, a man said, “What is wrong with him? May Allah disgrace him!”
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Do not help Satan against your (Muslim) brother.”

I would not feel sorry for one who dies because of receiving a legal punishment, except the drunk, for
if he should die (when being punished), I would give blood money to his family because no fixed
punishment has been ordered by Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) for the drunk.

We used to strike the drunks with our hands, shoes, clothes (by twisting it into the shape of lashes)
during the lifetime of the Prophet, Abu Bakr and the early part of `Umar’s caliphate. But during the
last period of `Umar’s caliphate, he used to give the drunk forty lashes; and when drunks became
mischievous and disobedient, he used to scourge them eighty lashes.

The Prophet (ﷺ) lashed a drunk with dateleaf stalks and shoes. And Abu Bakr gave a drunk forty lashes.

Abu Huraira said, “A man who drank wine was brought to the Prophet. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Beat him!”
Abu Huraira added, “So some of us beat him with our hands, and some with their shoes, and some
with their garments (by twisting it) like a lash, and then when we finished, someone said to him, ‘May
Allah disgrace you!’ On that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Do not say so, for you are helping Satan to overpower
him.’ ”

An-Nu`man or the son of An-Nu`man was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) on a charge of drunkenness. So the
Prophet ordered all the men present in the house, to beat him. So all of them beat him, and I was also
one of them who beat him with shoes.

An-Nu`man or the son of An-Nu`man was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) in a state of intoxication. The
Prophet felt it hard (was angry) and ordered all those who were present in the house, to beat him. And
they beat him, using palm-leaf stalks and shoes, and I was among those who beat him.

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “When an adulterer commits illegal sexual intercourse, then he is not a believer
at the time he is doing it; and when somebody drinks an alcoholic drink, then he is not believer at the
time of drinking, and when a thief steals, he is not a believer at the time when he is stealing; and when
a robber robs and the people look at him, then he is not a believer at the time of doing it.” Abu Huraira
in another narration, narrated the same from the Prophet (ﷺ) with the exclusion of robbery.