Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn Azhar: I can still picture myself looking at the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who was among the camps of the Companions seeking the camp of Khalid ibn al-Walid, when a man who had drunk wine was brought before him. He asked the people: Beat him. Some struck him with sandals, some with sticks and some with fresh branches of the palm-tree (mitakhah). Ibn Wahb said: This (mitakhah) means green palm fronds. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took some dust from the ground and threw it on his face.

Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn al-Azhar: A man who had drunk wine was brought before the Prophet ﷺ when he was in Hunayn. He threw some dust on his face. He then ordered his Companions and they beat him with their sandals and whatever they had in their hands. He then said to them: Leave him, and they left him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then died, and Abu Bakr gave forty lashes for drinking wine, and then Umar in the beginning of his Caliphate inflicted forty stripes and at the end of his Caliphate he inflicted eighty stripes. Uthman (after him) inflicted both punishments, eighty and forty stripes, and finally Muawiyah established eighty stripes.

Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn Azhar: I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the morning of the conquest of Makkah when I was a young boy. He was walking among the people, seeking the camp of Khalid ibn al-Walid. A man who had drunk wine was brought (before him) and he ordered them (to beat him). So they beat him with what they had in their hands. Some struck him with whips, some with sticks and some with sandals. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ threw some dust on his face. When a man who had drunk wine was brought before Abu Bakr, he asked them (i. e. the people) about the number of beatings which they gave him. They numbered it forty. So Abu Bakr gave him forty lashes. When Umar came to power, Khalid ibn al-Walid wrote to him: The people have become addicted to drinking wine and they look down upon the prescribed punishment and its penalty. He said: They are with you, ask them. The immigrants who embraced Islam in the beginning were with him. He asked them and they agreed on the fact that (a drunkard) should be given eighty lashes. Ali said: When a man drinks wine, he tells lies. I, therefore, think that he should be prescribed punishment that is prescribed for telling lies. . Abu Dawud said: 'Uqail bin Khalid included in the chain of this tradition: "Abdullah bin Abdur-Rahman bin al-Azhar from his father" between al-Zuhri and Ibn al-Azhar.