Sunan an-Nasa'i 3488

Abu Asim, Khushaysh ibn Asram, informed us; he said: Abd al-Razzaq informed us; he said: al-Thawri informed us, from Salih al-Hamdani, from al-Sha'bi, from Abd Khayr, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said: Three men who had intercourse with one woman during a single period of purity were brought to Ali while he was in Yemen. He asked two of them, ‘Do you acknowledge this child as belonging to him?’ They said, ‘No.’ Then he asked another two, ‘Do you acknowledge this child as belonging to him?’ They said, ‘No.’ He cast lots among them, assigned the child to the man who won the lot, and imposed two-thirds of the blood money on him. This was mentioned to the Prophet, and he laughed until his back teeth showed.