Sunan Abi Dawud

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

كتاب الحدود

Chapter 38: Carrying out had (punishment) in the masjid

فِي إِقَامَةِ الْحَدِّ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ

Sunan Abi Dawud 4490
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Narrated Hakim ibn Hizam

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to take retaliation in the mosque, to recite verses in it and to inflict the prescribed punishments in it.

Chapter 40: Striking the face in hadd (punishment)

فِي ضَرْبِ الْوَجْهِ فِي الْحَدِّ

Sunan Abi Dawud 4493
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Narrated AbuHurayrah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you inflicts a beating, he should avoid striking the face.

Chapter 439: Ta'zir (punishment)

فِي التَّعْزِيرِ

Sunan Abi Dawud 4491
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Abu Burdah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

No more than ten lashes are to be given, except in the case of one of the punishment prescribed by Allah, the Exalted.

Sunan Abi Dawud 4492
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The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Burdah al-Ansari through a different chain of narrators. This version has

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say. . . He then mentioned the tradition to the same effect.