Hazrat Ikrimah narrates that Hazrat Umar asked Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Auf: What is your opinion, if you are a judge and ruler and you see someone involved in an act requiring a prescribed punishment (hadd), will you establish the hadd on him or not? He replied: No, not until someone else also testifies with me. Hazrat Umar said: You have spoken correctly, and if you had said anything else, you would not have been right.

Hazrat Sufyan says that I heard Hazrat Hammad saying: Certainly, the statement of the ruler is valid in those matters which have been confessed before him, except for the hudood (prescribed punishments).