I said to Abu Abdullah (as), "Inform me about the qawwad (panderer), what is his prescribed punishment?" The Imam (as) replied: "There is no hadd (fixed legal punishment) on the qawwad. is he not merely receiving payment for facilitating?" I said: "May I be your ransom, but he is bringing together a man and a woman unlawfully." Imam (as) said: "That is the one who arranges unlawful meetings between a man and a woman." I said: "Yes, that is the case, may I be your ransom." Imam (as) said: "He is to be lashed three-quarters of the punishment of a fornicator - seventy-five lashes - and he is to be exiled from the city in which he resides."