The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed the lian oath between the man from the tribe of Ajlan and his wife. She was pregnant, and he said, "By Allah, I have not been near her since we performed the afr." Afr means watering the date palms two months after pollination, following a period in which they were left without water.Her husband had thin legs and forearms and reddish hair, while the man she was accused of being with was Ibn Sahma. She gave birth to a boy who was dark-skinned, with a broad forehead, curly hair, and thick forearms.Ibn Shaddad bin Had asked Ibn Abbas, "Is this the woman about whom the Prophet ﷺ said, 'If I were to stone anyone without clear evidence, I would have stoned her'?"Ibn Abbas replied, "No. That was a different woman, one who openly displayed indecency while professing Islam."
حدثنا عبد الملك بن عمرو حدثنا المغيرة بن عبد الرحمن عن أبي الزناد عن القاسم بن محمد أنه سمع
إن رسول الله ﷺ لاعن بين العجلاني وامرأته قال وكانت حبلى فقال والله ما قربتها منذ عفرنا والعفر أن يسقى النخل بعد أن يترك من السقي بعد الإبار بشهرين قال وكان زوجها حمش الساقين والذراعين أصهب الشعرة وكان الذي رميت به ابن السحماء قال فولدت غلاما أسود أجلى جعدا عبل الذراعين قال فقال ابن شداد بن الهاد لابن عباس أهي المرأة التي قال النبي ﷺ لو كنت راجما بغير بينة لرجمتها قال لا تلك امرأة قد أعلنت في الإسلام
Its isnad is sahih. Abdul-Malik bin Amr is Abu Amir Aqadi. Mughira bin Abdul-Rahman bin Abdullah bin Khalid bin Hizam bin Khuwaylid bin Asad bin Abdul-Uzza Hizami Madani, whose nickname was Qusayy. Ahmad and Abu Dawud said, "There is no harm in him," and it is reported from Ibn Main that he graded him daif, but Abu Dawud declared it a mistake for anyone to attribute that to Ibn Main. Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators, and Bukhari gave him a biographical entry in al-Kabir 4/1/321. The compilers of the six books all transmitted from him, and for that reason the Hafiz said in the introduction to Fath al-Bari, page 445, "The community of scholars have relied upon him." Abu Zinad's name was Abdullah bin Zakwan. He was a trustworthy, jurisprudent, eloquent successor, knowledgeable in Arabic, learned and sound in judgment.This hadith was narrated by Bukhari and Muslim through another route with a different wording, through Abdul-Rahman bin Qasim from Qasim bin Muhammad. It appears in Bukhari 9:400–401, 405–406 and 12:159–160, and in Muslim 1:438. The question of Ibn Shaddad and the answer of Ibn Abbas at the end of the hadith were narrated by Bukhari 12:159 and Muslim 438, through the route of Sufyan from Abu Zinad, from Qasim bin Muhammad. In their version, the questioner is Abdullah bin Shaddad bin Had. The Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari 9:406, "He is the son of the maternal aunt of Ibn Abbas." See also 2131, 2199, 2468.His statement "since we weaned" is a three-consonant root verb, as is evident from his statement "and the she-goat," etc. It is likewise recorded in manuscript L with a fatha on the fa without doubling, whereas what is in al-Nihayah has the fa doubled. It states, "Al-anIz means that when they pollinated the palm trees, they would leave them for forty days without watering, so that the fruit would not fall off, then water them, then leave them until they became thirsty, then water them again." This narration here is also explicit in treating it as a three-consonant root verb.Ibn al-Sahma is Sharik bin Sahma, she being his mother, and his father's name was Abda bin Mughith Balawi, an ally of the Ansar. See al-Isabah 3:202.Ajlah, with a jim, describes someone whose hair is thin between the two temples and whose hairline has receded from his forehead.Abl al-Dhiraayn, with a fatha on the ain and a sakin on the ba, means thick-forearmed. In manuscript J it appears as "able," which is an error, and we have corrected it from manuscript K.His statement, "That is a woman who has openly displayed in Islam," is clarified by the version found in the two Sahihs, "That woman used to openly display evil in Islam." The Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari 9:406, "That is, she used to openly commit indecency, but that was never established against her by either proof or confession." He also said in 12:160, "In the version of Urwa from Ibn Abbas, with a sahih chain, found in Ibn Majah, 'Had I been one to stone anyone without proof, I would have stoned so-and-so, for suspicion had become apparent in her speech, her walk, and those who visited her.'" The version he refers to is found in Sunan Ibn Majah 6:61. Its commentator said, in al-Zawaid, "Its isnad is sahih and its narrators are trustworthy."