Sunan Ibn Majah 2066

Translation

"Uwaimir came to 'Asim bin 'Adi and said: 'Ask the Messenger of Ailah ﷺ for me: "Do you think that if a man finds another man with his wife and kills him, he should be killed in retaliation, or what should he do?" 'Asim asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about that, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ disapproved of the question. Then 'Uwaimir met him ('Asim) and asked him about that, saying: 'What did you do?’ He said: I did that and you have not brought me any good. I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he disapproved of this question.’ Uwaimir said: 'By Allah, I will go to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ myself and ask him.' So he went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and found that Qur'an had been revealed concerning them, and the Prophet ﷺ told them to go through the procedure of Li'an. 'Uwaimir said: 'O Messenger of Allah, ﷺ by Allah if I take her back, I would have been telling lies about her.' So he left her before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ told him to do so, and that became the Sunnah for two who engage in the procedure of Li'an. Then the Prophet ﷺ said: 'Wait and see. If she gives birth to a child who is black in color with widely-spaced dark eyes and large buttocks, then I think that he was telling the truth about her, but if she gives birth to a child with a red complexion like a Wahrah,[1] then I think that he was lying.' Then she gave birth to a child with features resembling those of the man concerning whom she was accused."

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• Mizzī

  المحفوظ في ذلك حديث سهل بن سعد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لا سهل عن عاصم بن عدي

  machine translationWhat is preserved (maḥfūẓ) on this matter is the hadith of Sahl b. Saʿd from the Prophet ﷺ, not Sahl from ʿĀṣim b. ʿAdī. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2140

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1493fSunan Abi Dawud 2249Sunan an-Nasa'i 3474Musnad Ahmad 23259al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15418al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5644

Narrators

1. 1
   Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. Abū Nuʿaym and more than one said: 88 AH. Al-Wāqidī and others said: 91 AH. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: he lived a hundred years or more, so on this basis he would have lived until the year 96 AH or after it
   سَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Marwān Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. end of 240 AH, or the beginning of the year 241 AH
   أَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّصدوق يخطئ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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