محمد بن إبراهيم (report 231; identity unresolved)

Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Marwazī related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm related to me. He said: ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā related to us. He said: Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the teacher—who was imam of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan’s mosque—informed us. He said: There was a woman who had lost her reason and had a nickname. When called by it, she would curse. A man called her by it, and she accused his parents of illicit intercourse, while both were alive. She was brought before Ibn Abī Laylā, who imposed two prescribed punishments in one sitting, flogged her in the mosque, and imposed both punishments while she was standing. This reached Abū Ḥanīfa, may God have mercy on him. He said: ‘He erred in several respects. He imposed two punishments for the man’s parents, although they were alive and were the parties entitled to complain; this man was not such a party. He imposed two punishments in one place, though two punishments are not combined [until one has abated]. He imposed two punishments, although someone who accuses many people is subject to only one prescribed punishment. He punished her standing, although a woman is not subjected to a prescribed punishment standing. He punished her although she had lost her reason, and such a woman is not punished, for the pen is lifted from her. He stretched her out, although a woman is not stretched out. He flogged her in the mosque, although prescribed punishments are not carried out in the mosque.’ ʿAlī said: Bishr ibn Yaḥyā informed me of the final point.

The bracketed qualification [حتى يخف أحدهما] is retained in its brief form; no additional procedural condition has been supplied.