Hadith 26561

Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father saidthat there was only one hadd against a man who slandered a group ofpeople.Malik said, "If they are on separate occasions thereis still only one hadd against him."Malik related to me fromAbu'r-Rijal Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Haritha ibn an-Numan al-Ansari, then from the Banu'n-Najar from his mother Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that two men cursed each other in the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab. One of them said to the other, " By Allah, my father is notan adulterer and my mother is not an adulteress." Umar ibn al-Khattabasked advice about that. One person said, "He has praised his fatherand mother." Another said, "His father and mother have praise otherthan this. We think that he is to be flogged with the hadd." So Umarflogged him with the hadd of eighty lashes.Malik said,"There is no hadd in our view except for slander, denial orinsinuation, in which one sees that the speaker intends by that denialor slander. Then the hadd is completely imposed on the one who saidit."Malik said, "What is done in our community when a mandenies that another man is from his father, is that he deserves thehadd. If the mother who is denied is a slave, then he deserves thehadd as well. '