Sahih al-Bukhari

Hadith 6854

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What is the legal verdict in the case of somebody who behaves in such a suspicious and dishonest way that he may be suspected of adultery; and the case of one who accuses others of evil deeds without any evident proof.

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Darussalam · Volume 8

86 - THE BOOK OF AL-HUDŪD

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الحديث: 6854 ¦ الجزء: 8 ¦ الصفحة: 174

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6854. Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd رضي الله عنه: I witnessed the case of Li'an (the case of a man who charged his wife of committing illegal sexual intercourse(1)) when I was fifteen years old. The Prophet ﷺ ordered that they be divorced, and the husband said, "If I kept her, I would be a liar." I remember that Az-Zubair also said, "(It was said) that if that women brought forth the child with such and such description, her husband would prove truthful, but if she brought it with such and such description looking like a Wahara (a red insect), he would prove untruthful." I heard Az-Zubair also saying, "Finally she gave birth to a child of description which her husband disliked."

Arabic text

6854 - حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ: عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ: " شَهِدْتُ المُتَلاَعِنَيْنِ وَأَنَا ابْنُ خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً، فَرَّقَ بَيْنَهُمَا ، فَقَالَ زَوْجُهَا: كَذَبْتُ عَلَيْهَا إِنْ أَمْسَكْتُهَا " قَالَ: فَحَفِظْتُ ذَاكَ مِنَ الزُّهْرِيِّ: " إِنْ جَاءَتْ بِهِ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَهُوَ، وَإِنْ جَاءَتْ بِهِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، كَأَنَّهُ وَحَرَةٌ، فَهُوَ. وَسَمِعْتُ الزُّهْرِيَّ يَقُولُ: جَاءَتْ بِهِ لِلَّذِي يُكْرَهُ

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