the sin rests with the one who started it so long as the wronged person does not overstep the limit; but if the latter transgresses, the sin shifts to him. This serves as proof that a person may answer an insult with one of equal measure, yet must not go beyond it. For that reason, when the Prophet ﷺ said, “Allah curses the one who curses his parents,” the Companions asked, “Messenger of Allah, how can a man curse his own parents?” He replied, “He abuses another man’s father, so the man abuses his father; and he abuses another man’s mother, so the man abuses his mother.” This shows that whoever becomes the cause of evil will receive a share of that evil. Accordingly, the burden is upon the initiator unless the oppressed party exceeds due limits—in which case it falls upon him; but if he merely takes his right without adding anything, he bears no blame. Allah alone grants success.

1562 – Abu Hurayrah reported that a man who had drunk wine was brought to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet said, “Beat him.” Abu Hurayrah continued: “Some of us struck him with our hands, some with their sandals, and some with their garments. When it was over, one of the people said, ‘May Allah disgrace you!’ The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘Do not say that; do not help Satan against him.’” Reported by al-Bukhārī.

[Explanation]
This completes the collection of hadiths in the chapter entitled “The Prohibition of Reviling a Muslim Without Right.” Two narrations have already been mentioned—the reports of Ibn Masʿūd and Abu Hurayrah—on this subject. The third hadith, likewise from Abu Hurayrah, states that the Prophet ﷺ was brought a man who had drunk, meaning he had consumed khamr (an intoxicant), and this occurred after its prohibition had been revealed. Khamr is anything that induces intoxication—whether produced from grapes, dates, barley, wheat, or anything else; whatever intoxicates is khamr. The Prophet ﷺ said: