Hadith record

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 ( Hadd ) 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 ( Hadd ) of what crime has been committed, so establish the Penalty ( Hadd ), and do not exceed the Penalties of Allah azwj !’

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.