1078 – Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “A man who had drunk wine was brought to the Prophet ﷺ, and he struck him with two palm-frond branches, about forty lashes. He (Anas) added: Abu Bakr did the same. When ʿUmar became caliph he consulted the people, whereupon ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf said, ‘The lightest of the prescribed penalties is eighty lashes,’ so ʿUmar ordered that.” Agreed upon (1).

Muslim narrates—from ʿAlī, in the incident of al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah—“The Prophet ﷺ lashed forty times, Abu Bakr lashed forty, and ʿUmar lashed eighty. All of them are Sunnah, and the last is the one I prefer.”

Another report states: “A man testified that he had seen him vomiting wine. ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) said, ‘He would not have vomited it had he not drunk it.’” (2)

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Glossary of the ḥadith
• bi-jarīdatayn: two palm fronds; a jarīdah is a palm branch stripped of its leaflets, which are called khuṣ.
• The story of al-Walīd: Al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī Muʿīṭ drank wine during ʿUthmān’s caliphate. One witness attested that he drank it, and two others attested that he vomited it, so the prescribed penalty was carried out on him.
• yataqayyaʾuhā: to vomit; the expulsion of what is in the stomach.

Lessons drawn from the ḥadith
1 – The establishment of the prescribed penalty for wine is the position of the vast majority of scholars.