Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Yaḥyá b. Ḥammād > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Mukhtār > ʿAbdullāh b. Fayrūz a freed slave of Ibn ʿĀmir al-Dānāj > Ḥuḍayn b. al-Mundhir Abū Sāsān

“When Walid bin ʿUqbah was brought to ʿUthman, they had testified against him. He said to 'Ali: 'You are close to your uncle's son, so carry out the legal punishment on him.' So 'Ali whipped him. He said: 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave forty lashes, and Abu Bakr gave forty lashes, and 'Umar gave eighty all are Sunnah.'”

أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَمَّادٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ فَيْرُوزَ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَامِرٍ الدَّانَاجِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حُضَيْنُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ أَبُو سَاسَانَ قَالَ

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