‏الحدود : Hadeeth No:4232 Ali reported: If I impose Hadd on anyone, and he (in course of punish ment) dies, I would not mind except in case of a drunkard. If he dies. I would pay indemnity for him because the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) has laid down no rule for it....

‏فضائل الصحابة‏ : Hadeeth No:6153 'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The best among people are of my generation, then those next to them. (The narrator said): I do not know whether (he said) it three times or four times. Then there would fellow after them such persons whose evid...