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al-Najashi al-Harithi, the poet

النجاشي الحارثي الشاعر

A poet who drank wine in Ramadan; Ali flogged him eighty lashes and jailed him, then gave twenty more the next day. The book cites his imprisonment as an example of ta'zir 1.

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النجاشي الحارثي شاعر، شرب الخمر في رمضان فحدّه علي 1.

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يروي الكتاب أن علياً ضربه ثمانين جلدة ثم حبسه، فلما كان الغد أخرجه فضربه عشرين جلدة أخرى، وقال له إن الجلد الثاني جزاء «جرأتك على الله وإفطارك في رمضان» 1. ويعود الكتاب إلى قصته في باب التعزير ليستشهد بحبسه 2.

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Ali flogs the poet al-Najashi al-Harithi for drinking wine in Ramadan

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The Rashidun Caliphate· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Ali flogs the poet al-Najashi al-Harithi for drinking wine in Ramadan

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  1. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi , p. 306
  2. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi , p. 316
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The rule of the first four caliphs after the Prophet, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali, when the community expanded from Arabia into the Levant, Iraq, Egypt and Iran.