Volume 7 Book 62 Hadith 41

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 41:
Narrated ‘Uqba bin Al-Harith:
I married a woman and then a black lady came to us and said, “I have suckled you both (you and
your wife).” So I came to the Prophet and said, “I married so-and-so and then a black lady came to us
and said to me, ‘I have suckled both of you.’ But I think she is a liar.” The Prophet turned his face
away from me and I moved to face his face, and said, “She is a liar.” The Prophet said, “How (can you
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keep her as your wife) when that lady has said that she has suckled both of you? So abandon (i.e., di –
vorce) her (your wife).”