تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.32.4

12.32.4

وادعى عليه صبي من أبناء الملوك أنه قد ضربه من غير موجب ورفعه إلى القاضي فتوجه الحكم عليه بأن يرضيه بالمال إن قبل ذلك وإلا أمكنه من القصاص، فشاهدته يومئذ وقد عاد لمجلسه واستحضر الصبي وأعطاه عصا، وقال له، وحق رأسي لتضربنني كما ضربتك! فأخذ الصبي العصا وضربه بها إحدى وعشرين ضربة حتى رأيت الكلا قد طارت عن رأسه!!

A boy, one of the sons of the maliks, claimed that he had struck him without cause and brought him before the qāḍī. The judgement went against him: he was to satisfy him with money if he accepted that, and otherwise allow him retaliation. I witnessed him that day: he returned to his audience, summoned the boy, gave him a stick and said to him: 'By my head, you shall strike me as I struck you!' The boy took the stick and struck him twenty-one blows with it, so that I saw the cap fly off his head!!