1043 – Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that Abū al-Qāsim ﷺ said: “If someone peers at you without permission and you strike him with a small stone so that you put out his eye, you bear no sin.”

In the wording recorded by Aḥmad and al-Nasāʾī, which Ibn Ḥibbān declared authentic, it reads: “then there is no blood money for him, nor any retributive retaliation.” (1)

Hadith grading: The wording cited by Aḥmad and al-Nasāʾī was judged sound by al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Ḥibbān, and al-Bayhaqī; al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar mentioned this in Fatḥ al-Bārī.

Vocabulary notes
• ittaṭṭalaʿa: to look up and observe. Allah says, “So he looked and saw him in the midst of the blazing Fire” (Q 37:55)—meaning he gazed at him to recognise him.
• faḥadhaftahu: with an unpointed ḥāʾ, i.e. you hurled a pebble at him. It is also narrated with a khāʾ, referring to flicking the pebble between two fingers; this is called khaḍhf.
• fafaqaʾta ʿaynahu: to pierce the eye so that its contents spill out.
• junāḥ: with ḍamma on the jīm, meaning sin.

Points derived from the ḥadith
1 – It is forbidden to look into other people’s homes—whether from an elevated place, such as a minaret, or