Sahih al-Bukhari 5310

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Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr narrated to us; he said: al-Layth narrated to me, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that liʿān was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAdī made a remark about it and then left. A man from his people came to him complaining that he had found another man with his wife. ʿĀṣim said, ‘I have been tested with this only because of what I said.’ He took the man to the Prophet and told him what he had found his wife doing. The husband was pale, lean, and straight-haired; the man he accused of being with his wife was dark-skinned, thickset, and full-bodied. The Prophet said, ‘O Allah, make it clear.’ She gave birth resembling the man her husband had described, and the Prophet performed liʿān between them. A man in the gathering asked Ibn ʿAbbās, ‘Was she the woman about whom the Prophet said, “If I were to stone anyone without proof, I would stone this woman”?’ He said, ‘No. That was a woman who used to display evil conduct openly in Islam.’ Abū Ṣāliḥ and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf used the word khadlan for the man's build.