Al-Kafi 14043

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Usman Bin Isa, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘Sometimes I hit the slave regarding something which is Prohibited’. So he^asws said: ‘And how much do you hit him?’ So I said, ‘Sometimes I hit him one hundred (hits)’. So he^asws said: ‘One hundred, one hundred?’ So he^asws repeated that twice. Then he^asws said: ‘The Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) of the adulterer, fear Allah^azwj’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! So how much is befitting for me that I should hit him?’ So he^asws said: ‘One’. So I said, ‘By Allah^azwj! If he comes to know, that I would not be hitting him except for one, he would not leave anything for me except that he would spoil it’. So he^asws said: ‘So, twice’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! This is my destruction’, when he^asws said it. So I did not stop haggling until it reached five. Then he^asws got angered, so he^asws said: ‘O Is’haq! If you know a Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) of what crime has been committed, so establish the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>), and do not exceed the Penalties of Allah^azwj!’

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