Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Isnail Bin Bazie, from Hanan Bin Sudeyr, from his father who said, Abu Ja’far asws said: ‘A Limit ( Hadd ) which is established in the earth is more purifying therein than the rain of forty nights and days’.

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Ahmad Bin Mahran, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Musa Bin Sa’dan, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ibrahim asws (7 th Imam asws ) regarding the Words of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic [57:17] (Know that Allah) Revives the earth after its death . He asws said: ‘He azwj does not Revive it with the drops (of rain), but Allah azwj Sends men, so they are reviving the justice. Thus the earth gets revived with the revival of the justice, and the establishment of the Limits of Allah azwj is more beneficial in the earth than the drops (of rain) of forty days’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah saww said; ‘Establishment of the Limit ( Hadd ) is better than the rain of forty mornings’.

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A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Amro Bin Usman, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Rabat, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘The Prophet saww said to Sa’ad Bin Ubada that Allah azwj Made a Penalty ( Hadd ) for everything, and Made a Penalty ( Hadd ) to be upon everyone who transgresses a Limit ( Hadd ) from the Limits of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic, and Made what was less than the four witnesses as a veil upon the Muslims’.

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From him, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Hisham Bin Salim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said regarding half the Lashing, and a third of the lashing: ‘He (the whipper) would grab by half (length of) the whip, and a third (length of) of the whip’.

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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Usman Bin Isa, form Sama’at, Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘For everything there is a Limit ( Hadd ), and the one who exceeds that Limit ( Hadd ), there would be a Penalty ( punishment ) upon him’.

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Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Hassan, fromMuhammad Bin Ali, from Abu Jameela, from Ibn Dubays Al Kufy, from Amro Bin Qays who said, ‘Abu Abdullah asws said: ‘O Amro Bin Qays! Are you aware that Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic Sent a Rasool saww and Revealed unto him saww a Book, and Revealed in the Book everything what is needed to it, and Made for it an evidence pointing towards it, and Made a Limit ( Hadd ) for everything, and for the one who exceeds the Limit ( Hadd ), (there is) a Penalty ( Hadd )?’ I said, ‘He azwj Sent a Rasool saww and Revealed unto him saww a Book, and Revealed in the Book everything what is needed to it, and Made for it an evidence pointing towards it, and Made a Limit (Hadd) for everything, and for the one who exceeds the Limit ( Hadd ), (there is) a Penalty ( Hadd )?’ He asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘And how did He azwj Make a Penalty ( Hadd ) to be upon the one who exceeds the Limit ( Hadd )?’ He asws said: ‘Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic has a Limit ( Hadd ) in the wealth and that you cannot take it except from its Permissible means. So the one who takes if from others than its Permissible means, his hands are cut, being a Penalty ( Hadd ) for exceeding the Limit ( Hadd ). And that Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic has a Penalty ( Hadd ) that you should not copulate with the copulation except by its Permissible means, and the one who does other than that, if he is a celibate, is a Penalty (Hadd), and if he was married, stoning, for having exceeded the Penalty ( Hadd )’.

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Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Hafs Bin Awn, raising it, said, ‘Rasool-Allah saww said: ‘A moment from a just Imam asws is superior to worship of seventy years, and a Penalty ( Hadd ) established for the Sake of Allah azwj in the earth is superior that the rain of forty mornings’.

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Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Al Ashary, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Aban Bin Usman, from Suleyman cousin of Hassan Al Ajaly who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah asws saying: ‘Allah azwj did not Create a Permissible nor a Prohibition except for it is a Limit like the limits (boundaries) of this house of mine asws . Whatever was from the road, so it is from the road, and whatever was from the house, so it is from the house, to the extent of the compensation of the scratch, and whatever is besides it, and the lashing and half of the lashing’.

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Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from one of his companions, from Aasim Bin Humeyd, Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘The stoning is the bigger Penalty ( Hadd ) of Allah azwj , and the lashing is the smaller Penalty ( Hadd ) of Allah azwj ’.

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Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Husayn Bin Al Munzar, from Amro Bin Qays Al Masir, Abu Ja’far asws having said: ‘Allah azwj Blessed and High did not leave anything out which the community would be needy for it up to the Day of Judgement, except that He azwj has Revealed in in His azwj Book, and Clarified it for His azwj Rasool saww , and Made a Penalty ( Hadd ) for everything, and Made an evidence over it pointing towards it, and Made a Penalty ( Hadd ) to be upon everyone who exceeds the Penalty ( Hadd )’.

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A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Fazalat Bin Ayoub, from Dawood Bin Farqad who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah asws saying that the companions of the Prophet saww said to Sa’ad Bin Ubada, ‘What is your view, if you were to find a man upon the belly of your wife, how would you deal with it?’ He said, ‘I would strike him with the sword’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Rasool-Allah saww came out, so he saww said: ‘What is (the matter), O Sa’ad?’ He said, ‘They are saying, if you were to find a man upon the belly of your woman, what would you have done with him?’ So I said, ‘I would strike him with the sword’. So he saww said: ‘O Sa’ad! And how (will you get) the four witnesses?’ So he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! After having seen with my own eyes, and Allah azwj Knows that he has done it?’ He saww said: ‘Yes, by Allah azwj ! (Even) after having seen with your eyes and Allah azwj Knowing that he has done it, because Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic has Made a Penalty ( Hadd ) for everything, and Made upon the one who exceeds the Penalty ( Hadd ), a Penalty ( Hadd )’.

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A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub Al Khazaz, from Al Halby, Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘In the Book of Ali asws , he asws used to strike with the whip, and by half the whip, and part of it regarding the Penalties. And when they came with a boy and girl who had yet to mature, he asws would not invalidate a single Penalty ( Hadd ) from the Penalties of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic’. It was said to him asws : ‘And how did he asws used to whip?’ He asws said: ‘He asws used to take the whip with his asws hands, from its middle or from its third, then strike with it upon the measurement of their respective ages, and he asws would not invalidate a single Penalty ( Hadd ) from the Penalties of Allah azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

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