Malik related to me from Zurayq ibn Hakim al-Ayli that a man called Misbah asked his son for help and he thought him unnecessarily slow. When the son came, his father said to him, "O fornicator." Zurayq said, "So the son asked me to help him against the father. When I wanted to flog him, his son said, By Allah, if you flog him, I will acknowledge that I have committed fornication. When he said that, the situation was confused for me, so I wrote about it to Umar ibn Abdul Aziz who was the governor at that time, and I mentioned it to him. Umar wrote me to permit his pardon." Zurayq said, "I wrote to Umar ibn Abdul Aziz also, What do you think about a man who is slandered or his parents are slandered and both or only one of them are dead? He said, Umar wrote to me, If he forgives, his pardon is permitted for himself. If his parents are slandered and one or both of them are dead, take the judgement of the Book of Allah for it unless he wants to veil it. "