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Ali flogs the poet al-Najashi al-Harithi for drinking wine in Ramadan

علي يجلد النجاشي الحارثي الشاعر لشربه الخمر في رمضان

between 656 and 661 CE

Al-Najashi al-Harithi, a poet, drank wine in Ramadan; Ali flogged him eighty lashes and jailed him, then flogged him twenty more the next day, saying the lashes were for his defiance of God and breaking the fast. The book cites the case as an example of prison as ta'zir.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

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موجز

يروي الكتاب أن علياً ضرب النجاشي الحارثي الشاعر، لأنه شرب الخمر في رمضان 1: ثمانين جلدة، ثم حبسه، فلما كان الغد ضربه عشرين أخرى 1.

الواقعة

يروي الكتاب عن عطاء عن أبيه أن علياً ضرب النجاشي الحارثي، وكان شاعراً شرب الخمر في رمضان 1. وقد جاء الحكم في سياق الكتاب عن حد الشرب، وفيه أن الحد لازم لمن شرب الخمر، وأن العقل مقصود في الشرع يُحفظ بإقامة الحد 2.

تفصيل الجلد والحبس

بعد الجلد الأول حبسه علي، ثم أخرجه في الغد فجلده عشرين جلدة أخرى، وقال له: «إنما جلدتك هذه العشرين جرأتك على الله، وإفطارك في رمضان» 1. ويعود الكتاب إلى الحادثة في باب التعزير، ويذكر فيها الحبس مثالاً 3.

ملاحظات للباحثين
  • النص المطبوع في الكتاب فيه خلل في رقم الجلدات الثانية؛ ينبغي مراجعة الصورة قبل الاقتباس من الرقم.
  • الكتاب يورد الحادثة بوصفها رواية مسندة، ولا يحكم فيما إذا كان الجمع بين الحد والتعزير جائزاً.

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The question: Should the penalty for drinking in Ramadan be increased?

First opinion · Sunni tradition (the museum's frame)Main reference

The book gives the narration from Ata on his father's authority and treats the second twenty lashes as ta'zir for defiance and for breaking the fast; it does not rule on combining hadd with ta'zir {cite:sallabi-ali-vol1 p. 306}.

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Had participant
Ali ibn Abi Talib· al-Najashi al-Harithi, the poet
Part of
The Rashidun Caliphate

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Sources

  1. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi , p. 306
  2. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi , p. 307
  3. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi , p. 316
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Ali frees two men who each confessed to one killing and pays the diya from the treasury

Two men each confessed to the same killing before Ali. Hasan's ruling was that the one who had killed had saved a life by confessing; Ali released both and paid the diya from the treasury. The book suggests the victim's heirs may have waived retaliation.