Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates from his father Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever mutilates his slave by cutting off a limb, the slave is free, and he is the freedman (mawla) of Allah and His Messenger."

It is narrated from Hilal bin Yasaf that he said: We were staying in the house of Sayyiduna Suwayd bin Muqarrin (may Allah be pleased with him), and with us was a hot-tempered and ignorant old man. I do not know what Sayyiduna Suwayd's slave-girl said, but that man slapped her. At this Sayyiduna Suwayd (may Allah be pleased with him) became so intensely angry that I had never before seen him so angry. He said (to that old man): "Could you find no other place to strike but her face? I have seen the time when we of Banu Muqarrin were seven brothers and had only one maidservant, and then the youngest of us slapped her, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered us to set her free."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A father shall not be subjected to retaliation for killing his child, nor shall the prescribed punishments be carried out in the mosques."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) flogged (the one guilty of fornication) and exiled him, and indeed Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) also flogged and exiled, and likewise Umar al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with him) also flogged and exiled. This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he delivered a sermon and said: "O people, establish the prescribed punishments upon your slaves and slave-girls, whether they are married or unmarried, for a slave-girl of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) committed fornication, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered me to flog her. I went to her and found that she had only recently given birth (and was in post-natal bleeding, nifas). I feared that if I flogged her, she might die. I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned this to him, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'You did well.'" This hadith is sahih on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Burdah al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "No one is to be given more than ten lashes, except in one of the prescribed punishments (hudud) set by Allah Almighty (in other disciplinary matters)." The chain of this hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) that he visited one of his paternal aunts. She called for food, and the maidservant was late in bringing it. At this his aunt said: O adulteress! Why do you not hurry? Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Subhan Allah! You have said a grave thing. Did you see her commit adultery? She said: By Allah, no! Then Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Any man or woman who says to his or her maidservant, 'O adulteress,' without having seen any immorality from her, that maidservant will flog him or her on the Day of Resurrection, because there is no prescribed punishment (for slander) for them (slaves and slave-girls) in this world." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. However, in this chapter they both agreed on this hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him): "Whoever accuses his slave of adultery, the prescribed punishment will be established upon him on the Day of Resurrection."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from the tribe of Aslam came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said that he had committed fornication with a woman. He also named the woman, but she denied (the act). So he (peace and blessings be upon him) established the prescribed punishment upon the man and left the woman. This chain is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man from the tribe of Banu Bakr bin Layth came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and confessed four times that he had committed fornication with a woman. Since he was unmarried, he was given a hundred lashes. Then he asked for evidence against the woman, and the woman said: O Messenger of Allah, by Allah, he has lied. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave that man eighty lashes as the prescribed punishment for slander (hadd al-firyah) for making a false accusation. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Hilal bin Umayyah, in the presence of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), accused his wife of adultery with Sharik bin Sahma'. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Produce evidence, or else the prescribed punishment (lashes) will be applied to your back." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.