One who falsely accuses: are his clothes removed or is he lashed in them?

Ibn Shubrumah said: I was with Imam al-Sha'bi when a man was brought who had been seized in a matter of a prescribed punishment or a false accusation. He applied the prescribed punishment to him while he had a shirt on his body; I do not know what was under it.

Mujahid and Ibrahim said: "The one who makes a false accusation will be beaten while there are clothes on his body."

Mughirah reports from Ibrahim; they both (Mujahid and Ibrahim) said: "The one who makes a false accusation is to be beaten with his clothes on."

Sa'd bin Ibrahim reports that his father Ibrahim said: "I indeed remember the skin of the goat about which my mother gave an order, and it was slaughtered, when Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) flogged Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him); and its skin was placed on his back because of the severity of the beating."

Mutarrif reports that al-Sha'bi said: "The one who makes a false accusation is to be flogged with his clothes on, except that there should not be a fur-lined garment or a cotton-padded gown, so that he may feel the severity of the beating."

Al-Walid bin Abi Malik reports that a man was brought to Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him) in a matter of punishment. The man began to take off his own shirt and said: "It is not fitting for this sinful body of mine to be beaten while wearing a shirt." Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah said: "Do not let him take off his shirt." So he flogged him over his shirt.

Shu'bah reports that Hammad said: "The one who makes a false accusation is to be beaten with his clothes on."

Isma'il reports that al-Hasan al-Basri said: "When a man falsely accuses someone in winter, he is not to be dressed in summer clothes; rather, he is to be flogged in the same clothes in which he made the accusation. And when he makes the accusation in summer, he is not to be dressed in winter clothes; he is to be flogged in the same clothes in which he made the accusation."

Ibrahim reports that his mother said: "I indeed remember the skin of a goat." Then she narrated the same content as the hadith of Ibn Ulayyah that has passed above.