Chapter on What Necessitates Discretionary Punishment, Legal Punishment, Stoning, Execution, and Exile in Adultery
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 5
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Volume 4, Book 1, Chapter 5
Chapter on What Necessitates Discretionary Punishment, Legal Punishment, Stoning, Execution, and Exile in Adultery
وَ رَوَى مُوسَى بْنُ بَكْرٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: "لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلاً أَخَذَ حُزْمَةً مِنْ قُضْبَانٍ أَوْ أَصْلاً فِيهِ قُضْبَانٌ فَضَرَبَهُ ضَرْبَةً وَاحِدَةً أَجْزَأَهُ عَنْ عِدَّةِ مَا يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَجْلِدَهُ مِنْ عِدَّةِ اَلْقُضْبَانِ".
Narrated by Musa ibn Bakr from Zurara who said: Abu Jafar Imam Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Baqir عليه السلام said: "If a man were to take a bundle of rods or a branch containing multiple rods and struck someone with it once, it would suffice him for however many lashes he intended to administer, equal to the number of rods in that bundle."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 310