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3515. It was narrated that 'Abdullâh bin Az-Zubair said: "Zam'ah had a slave woman with whom he used to have intercourse, but he suspected that someone else was also having intercourse with her. She gave birth to a child who resembled the one whom he suspected. Zam'ah died when she was pregnant, and Sawdah mentioned that to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ. The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'The child is the bed's, but veil yourself from him, O Sawdah, for he is not a brother of yours.'" (Hasan)
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'The child is the bed's': Now when the owner of the bed (owner of the slave woman) was deceased, there was no possibility of denial. Had he been alive and had denied the paternity of the child, the child would not have been ascribed to him. It would rather have been attributed to the slave woman.
