Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1448b
"عن سعيد بن المسيب أَنَّ رَجُلَيْنِ اشتركا في طُهْرِ امرأةٍ فَولَدَتْ ولدًا، فارتفعوا إلى عمر بن الخطاب فدعا لهم ثلاثةً من القافة، فَدَعَوْا بتُراب فَوَطئ فيه الرَّجُلان والغلامُ، ثم قال لأحدِهم: انظر فنظرَ فاستقبل واستعرضَ واستدبَر، قال: لقد أخذ الشبه منهما جميعا فما أدرى لأيهما هو؟ ونظر الآخران فقالا: مثل ذلك، فقال عمر: أما تعرف الآثار؟ وكان عمر قايفا، فجعله لهما يَرِثَانِهِ وَيَرثُهُمَا".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Sʿyd b. al-Msyb
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"On the authority of Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab that two men shared intercourse with a woman in one period of purity, and she bore a boy. They brought the matter to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, who summoned three physiognomists for them. They asked for some soil, and the two men and the boy walked in it. Then he said to one of them: Look. So he looked, turned, faced, and turned back, and said: He has taken the resemblance of both of them together, and I do not know which of them he is. The other two looked and said the same. 'Umar said: Do you not know the traces? 'Umar was a physiognomist himself. So he made the child an heir of both of them, and he inherits from both of them."
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[ق] البيهقى في السنن ورواه [عب] عبد الرازق
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