Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 837 – Volume 8, Book 82

English

Volume 8, Book 82, Number 837:
Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd:
I witnessed the case of Lian (the case of a man who charged his wife for committing illegal sexual
intercourse when I was fifteen years old. The Prophet ordered that they be divorced, and the hus –
band said, "If I kept her, I would be a liar." I remember that Az-Zubair also said, "(It was said) that if
that woman 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 Wahra (a red insect), he
would prove untruthful." I heard Az-Zubair also saying, "Finally she gave birth to a child of descrip –
tion which her husband disliked .