Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and Abu Bakr gave forty lashes for drinking wine and Umar made it eighty. And all this is sunnah, the model and standard practice. Abu Dawud said: Al-Asmai explaning the maxim, "He who enjoys its cold should bear its heat, " said: He who enjoys the easy if it should also take the responsibility of the hard of it. Abu Dawud said: Hudain bin al-Mundhir Abu Sasan was the leader of his tribe.

Abu Hurairah said: When a man who had drunk wine was brought to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم , he said: Beat him. Abu Hurairah said: Some struck him with their hands, some with their garment. When he turned his face, some people said: Allah put you shame! The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Do not say like that and help the devil to get power over him.

Anas bin Malik said: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم gave a beating with palm-branches and sandals for drinking wine and Abu Bakr gave lashes. When Umar came to power, he called upon people and said to them: The people are living now near watering placing, and, according to Musaddad’s version,“near villages and watering places, so what do you say about the punishment for (drinking) wine? Abdur-Rahman bin Awf said: We think that you should prescribe the lightest punishment. So he fixed eight lashes for it. Abu Dawud said: It has also been transmitted by Ibn Al 'Arubah from Qatadah from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم to the effect that he gave a beating forty times with palm branches and sandals. And Shubah narrated it from Qatadah on the authority of Anas from Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . This version has: He gave a beating with two palm-branches about forty times.

Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn Azhar: I can still picture myself looking at the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who was among the camps of the Companions seeking the camp of Khalid ibn al-Walid, when a man who had drunk wine was brought before him. He asked the people: Beat him. Some struck him with sandals, some with sticks and some with fresh branches of the palm-tree (mitakhah). Ibn Wahb said: This (mitakhah) means green palm fronds. Then the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم took some dust from the ground and threw it on his face.

Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn al-Azhar: A man who had drunk wine was brought before the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم when he was in Hunayn. He threw some dust on his face. He then ordered his Companions and they beat him with their sandals and whatever they had in their hands. He then said to them: Leave him, and they left him. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم then died, and Abu Bakr gave forty lashes for drinking wine, and then Umar in the beginning of his Caliphate inflicted forty stripes and at the end of his Caliphate he inflicted eighty stripes. Uthman (after him) inflicted both punishments, eighty and forty stripes, and finally Muawiyah established eighty stripes.

Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn Azhar: I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم on the morning of the conquest of Makkah when I was a young boy. He was walking among the people, seeking the camp of Khalid ibn al-Walid. A man who had drunk wine was brought (before him) and he ordered them (to beat him). So they beat him with what they had in their hands. Some struck him with whips, some with sticks and some with sandals. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم threw some dust on his face. When a man who had drunk wine was brought before Abu Bakr, he asked them (i. e. the people) about the number of beatings which they gave him. They numbered it forty. So Abu Bakr gave him forty lashes. When Umar came to power, Khalid ibn al-Walid wrote to him: The people have become addicted to drinking wine and they look down upon the prescribed punishment and its penalty. He said: They are with you, ask them. The immigrants who embraced Islam in the beginning were with him. He asked them and they agreed on the fact that (a drunkard) should be given eighty lashes. Ali said: When a man drinks wine, he tells lies. I, therefore, think that he should be prescribed punishment that is prescribed for telling lies. . Abu Dawud said: 'Uqail bin Khalid included in the chain of this tradition: "Abdullah bin Abdur-Rahman bin al-Azhar from his father" between al-Zuhri and Ibn al-Azhar.