Volume 8, Book 82, Number 839:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Volume 8 – 1534 / 1700
SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 8 > BOOK 82: PUNISHMENT OF DISBELIEVERS AT WAR WITH ALLAH AND HIS APOSTLE
Lian was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, Asim bin Adi said a statement about it, and
when he left, a man from his tribe came to him complaining that he had seen a man with his wife.
Asim said, “I have been put to trial only because of my statement.” So he took the man to the Prophet
and the man told him about the incident. The man (husband) was of yellow complexion, thin, and of
lank hair, while the man whom he had accused of having been with his wife, was reddish brown
with fat thick legs and fat body. The Prophet said, “O Allah! Reveal the truth.” Later on the lady de –
livered a child resembling the man whom the husband had accused of having been with her. So the
Prophet made them take the oath of Lian. A man said to Ibn Abbas in the gathering, “Was that the
same lady about whom the Prophet said, “If I were to stone any lady (for committing illegal sexual
intercourse) to death without witnesses, I would have stoned that lade to death?” Ibn Abbas said, “No,
that was another lady who used to behave in such a suspicious way among the Muslims that one
might accuse her of committing illegal sexual intercourse.”