‘Umar b. al-Khattab told that a man called ‘Abdallah whose laqab was Ass used to make the Prophet laugh. The Prophet had beaten him because of wine-drinking, but when he was brought to him one day and he gave orders and had him beaten, and then one of those present said,“O God, curse him. How often he is brought!”he said,“Do not curse to him. I swear by God that for all I know he loves God and His messenger." Bukhari transmitted it.

Abu Huraira said:When a man who had been drinking was brought to the Prophet he told those present to beat him, so some of us beat him with their hands, some with their sandals and some with their garments. Then when the man went away and one of those present said,“God shame you!’' the Prophet said,“Do not say such a thing. Do not help the devil to get power over him.”Bukhari transmitted it.

Abu Huraira told that al-Aslami (i.e. Ma’iz. See p. 759) came to the Prophet and testified four times that he had had illicit intercourse with a woman, while he all the time was turning away from him. Then when he confessed a fifth time he turned round and asked if he had had intercourse with her, and when he replied that he had he asked if he had done it so that his member penetrated hers. He replied that he had, and he asked whether he had done it like a collyrium stick when enclosed in its case and a rope in a well. On his replying that it was so, he asked whether he knew what fornication was and he replied,“Yes, I have done with her unlawfully what a man may lawfully do with his wife.”He then asked what he wanted by what he had said and he replied that he wanted him to purify him, so he gave command and he was stoned to death. Then God’s prophet heard one of his companions saying to another,“Look at this man whose fault was concealed by God but who could not leave the matter alone, so that he was stoned like a dog." He said nothing to them but walked on for a time till he came to the corpse of an ass with its legs in the air. He then asked where so and so and so and so were, and when they replied that they were there he said,“Go down and eat some of this ass’s corpse.”They replied,“Prophet of God, who can eat any of this?”whereupon he said,“The dishonour you have just shown to your brother is more serious than eating some of it. By Him in whose hand my soul is, he is now among the rivers of paradise plunging into them.”Abu Dawud transmitted it.

Khuzaima b. Thabit reported God's Messenger as saying,“If anyone commits a sin and has inflicted on him the prescribed punishment for that sin, it is an atonement for him.”It is transmitted in Sharh as-sunna.

‘Ali reported the Prophet as saying,“If anyone transgresses and receives his punishment in this world, God is too just to repeat the punishment to His servant in the next; and if anyone transgresses and God conceals it and forgives him, He is too generous to go back upon a thing He has forgiven.”Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a gharib tradition.

Abu Burda b. Niyar reported the Prophet as saying,“No more than ten lashes are to be given, except in the case of one of the punishments prescribed by God.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

Abu Huraira reported the Prophet as saying,“When one of you inflicts a beating he should avoid striking the face.”Abu Dawud transmitted it.

Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Prophet as saying,“When a man calls another a Jew give him twenty lashes, when he calls someone a mukhannath* give him twenty lashes, and kill anyone who has intercourse with a woman who is within the prohibited degress.”Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib tradition. * Mukhannaths were sexually abnormal men who imitated women. Some of them were signets.

‘Umar reported God’s Messenger as saying,“When you find a man has been unfaithful about spoil in God’s path, burn his goods and beat him.”Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a gharib tradition.

Abu Huraira reported God’s Messenger as saying,“Wine comes from these two trees, the date-palm and the grapevine.”Muslim transmitted it.