A man who says to another: You sodomite; those who said he is not given the hadd punishment

Sa'id bin Yazid reports that Sinan bin Salamah said to him: "What an excellent man, if he is a Luti!"

Layth reports that Tawus used to say: "There is no prescribed punishment on him, unless he says: 'You do the deed of the people of Lut.'"

A statement like that of Tawus is also reported from al-Dahhak through this chain.

Abu Khalid al-Wasiti reports that al-Sha'bi said: "I do not know that the prescribed punishment is due upon him."

Farqad al-Sabakhi reports that a man said to another man: "O Luti!" That man asked al-Hasan al-Basri and Muhammad, and both of them said: "The prescribed punishment is not to be applied to him." And al-Hasan al-Basri said: "Unless he says: 'You do the deed of the people of Lut.'"

And al-Hasan said: "Unless he says: 'You do the deed of the people of Lut.'"

Abu al-Ala reports that Qatadah said: "There is no punishment on him." And Abu Hashim said: "When he says: 'You had intercourse with so-and-so in his rear,' he is to be given the lashes of the prescribed punishment for false accusation."

And Abu Hashim said: "When he says: 'You have intercourse with so-and-so in his rear,' he said: 'Flog him the prescribed punishment.'"

Qatadah reports that a man said to Abu al-Aswad: "O Luti!" He said: "May Allah have mercy on Lut." And he did not consider anything to be due in this matter.

Mansur reports that Ibrahim said: "Lashes are to be given to the one who did this act and to the one who accuses someone of it."