Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub and Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Bazie, from Hanan Bin Sudeyr, from Yahya Bin Abbad Al Makky who said, ‘Sufyan said to me, ‘I see for you having a status from Abu Abdullah asws , so ask him asws about a man who commits adultery and he is sick. If the Penalty ( Hadd ) were to be established upon him, he would die. What are you asws saying with regards to it?’ So I asked him asws , so he asws said: ‘Is this from yourself or a person told you to ask me asws about it?’ So I said, ‘Sufyan Al-Sowry asked me that I should ask you asws ’. So Abu Abdullah asws said: ‘They came with a man to Rasool-Allah saww who sufferred from illness of the belly and the veins of his thighs were visible, and he had committed adultery with a sick woman. So Rasool-Allah saww ordered a palm branch which had a hundred stalks to it, so the man was whipped with it by one lash, and the woman was whipped with it with one lash, then he saww freed both their ways. Then he saww recited this Verse [38:44] And take in your hand a green branch and beat with It and do not break your oath ’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Yahya Bin Abu Imran, from Yunus, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I asked one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ) about a Penalty ( Hadd ) of the speechless, the deaf and the blind, so he asws said: ‘Upon them are the Penalties, when they they have the intellect of what they are coming to’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Abu Hammam, from Muhammad Bin Saeed, from Al Sakuny, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘They came to Amir Al-Momineen asws with a man who had numerous sores in his body. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said: ‘Delay it until he is cured. Do not peel these off (by beating him) for you would kill him’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Aban Bin Usman, from Abu Al Abbas, Abu Abdullah asws has said: ‘They came to Rasool-Allah saww with a short, ugly man who had illness in his belly, and the veins of his belly had turned around. He had been immoral with a woman, so she said, ‘I did not know of him except that he entered into me’. So Rasool-Allah saww said to him: ‘Did you commit adultery?’ So he said, ‘Yes’, and he was not married. So Rasool-Allah saww raised his saww gaze and lowered it. Then he saww called for a palm branch, counted a hundred, then whipped him with its stalk’.

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

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Al Assam, from Misma’a Bin Abdul Malik, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws that they came to Amir Al-Momineen asws with a man who was due a Penalty ( Hadd ), and with him were blisters and an illness, and such like that. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said: ‘Delay it until he is cured. Do not peel off his blisters (by beating him), for he would die, but when he is cured, we asws shall Penalty ( Hadd ) him’.

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