English translation
4479. It was narrated from Anas bin Mālik that the Prophet ﷺ flogged people for drinking, with palm branches and shoes, and Abū Bakr gave forty lashes. When ‘Umar was the Khalifah, he called the people and said: ‘The people have drawn close to the countryside’ - Musad-dad (one of the narrators) said: ‘to towns and countryside’ - ‘what do you think about the Hadd (punishment) for drinking?’ ‘Abdur-Raḥmān bin ‘Awf said to him: ‘We think that you should make it like the lightest of the Hadd (punishments).’ So he gave eighty lashes for (drinking).” (Saḥih) Abū Dāwūd said: Ibn Abī ‘Arūbah narrated from Qatādah that the Prophet ﷺ gave lashes with palm branches and shoes, forty blows. Shu‘bah narrated from Qatādah from Anas that the Prophet ﷺ gave about forty blows with two palm branches.