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{{Quote|{{cite web quotebox|url= http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=3&ID=3106&CATE=335|title= Hitting Children: When is it allowed? What are the limits?|publisher= Qibla|author= Shaykh Amjad Rasheed|date= |series= Question ID:3106|archiveurl= http://archive.is/4n57p|deadurl=no}}|It is not permissible for anyone to hit a child except for the wali [s. guardian] such as the father, the grandfather and like them, the mother, or a wasi [s. authorized agent], and he is someone to whom the guardian entrusts the child for guardianship, or the qayyim [s. caretaker] and that is someone who is charged by a judge to guard the child when the wali is lost and if the wali never charged someone to be the child's wasi.<BR><BR>It is permissible for these people to hit for reasons of [s. the child's] learning and bad manners even if these don't involve disobedience as has come in the Tuhfa and Hashiyat al-Sharwani (179/9). They may also hit him when he reaches ten years of age, for not praying and fasting and so forth, which the wali must tell him to do so that he becomes accustomed to them, likewise, [a. he can be hit] when he does anything haram that the wali has told him to avoid so that he can get accustomed to [s. avoiding] them.}}

{{Quote|{{cite web|url=https://sunnah.com/urn/409980 |title=Muwatta of Imam Malik: Book 21 Hadith 16 |publisher= Sunnah.com |author= |date= |archiveurl= |deadurl=no}}|Malik said, '''"I do not see that there is any harm in the Muslims eating whatever food they come across in enemy territory before the spoils are divided."'''