The hadd punishment for wine: how much is it, and how many lashes does its drinker receive?

Hudayn Abu Sasan said: Some people of Kufah rode to Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) and told him of al-Walid bin Uqbah's (may Allah be pleased with him) drinking wine. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) spoke to him about this. Sayyiduna Uthman said: Go to your cousin and carry out the prescribed punishment (hadd) on him. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Hasan! Stand up and flog him. He said: You are not suited to this act! Entrust it to someone other than yourself. He said: Rather, you have become weak, feeble and helpless. O Abdullah bin Ja'far, stand up. So he began to flog him while Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) kept count, until they reached forty. He said: Stop, or he said: Hold back. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave forty lashes, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) also gave forty lashes, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) completed it to eighty lashes, and all of them are Sunnah practices.

Al-Hasan al-Basri said that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) gave eighty lashes for wine.

Abu Abd al-Rahman said that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Some people of al-Sham drank wine. At that time Yazid bin Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) was their commander, and those people said: It is lawful for us, and they interpreted this verse: "There is no blame on those who believe and do righteous deeds for what they have eaten" [Al-Ma'idah: 93]. Yazid bin Abi Sufyan wrote to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) about this. Sayyiduna Umar wrote: Send them to me before they corrupt those who are with you. When they came, Sayyiduna Umar consulted about them. It was said to him: O Commander of the Believers! We think that these people have lied about Allah and have laid down in their religion what Allah has not permitted, so have them killed. During this Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) remained silent. Sayyiduna Umar asked: O Abu al-Hasan! What do you say? Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: My view is that you should call on them to repent. If they repent, give them eighty lashes each for drinking wine, and if they do not repent, have them killed, for they have forged a lie against Allah and have laid down in their religion what Allah has not permitted. Sayyiduna Umar called on them to repent and they repented, and at this he gave them eighty lashes each.

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin al-Azhar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A drinker was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of the Battle of Hunayn, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the people: Rise against him. So the people went to him and struck him with their sandals.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) struck forty times with two sandals for wine, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) began to give a lash in place of each sandal.

Al-Sumayt bin Umayr said: A man entered the mosque on Friday and prayed four rak'ahs. At this one man said to his companion: Did you see what I saw? He said: Yes. Then the two of them seized that man and brought him to Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him), and they said: This man entered the mosque and prayed four rak'ahs. He asked: Anything else? They said: No. He said: This is indeed a cause for suspicion. He asked: What led you to do what you did? The man replied: I have never drunk wine before today. So he gave him eighty lashes.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave forty lashes for wine.