Malik related to me from Abu'z-Zinad that he said, ''Umar ibn Abd
al-Aziz flogged a slave with eighty lashes for slander."
Abu'z-Zinad said, "I asked Abdullah ibn Amir ibn Rabia about that. He
said, 'I saw Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, the Khalifs, and
so on, and I did not see any of them flog a slave more than forty
lashes for slander.' "