"Tell me, Asim, if a man finds another man with his wife, does he kill him and then you all kill him in retaliation, or what should he do? Ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about this for me, Asim."So Asim asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ disliked such questions and criticized them, until what Asim heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ weighed heavily upon him.When Asim returned to his family, Uwaymir came to him and asked, "Asim, what did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say to you?"Asim replied to Uwaymir, "You have brought me no good. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ disliked the question I asked about."Uwaymir said, "By Allah, I will not stop until I ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about it myself."So Uwaymir came forward until he reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the midst of the people and said, "Messenger of Allah, what do you say about a man who finds another man with his wife? Does he kill him, and then you all kill him in retaliation, or what should he do?"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Verses have been revealed concerning you and your wife. Go and bring her here."Sahl said, "So they performed the lian, and I was among the people with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When Uwaymir finished, he said, 'I would have lied against her, Messenger of Allah, if I were to keep her.' Then he divorced her three times before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded him to do so."
أخبرنا محمد بن سلمة قال حدثنا ابن القاسم عن مالك قال حدثني ابن شهاب أن سهل بن سعد الساعدي أخبره أن عويمرا العجلاني جاء إلى
أرأيت يا عاصم لو أن رجلا وجد مع امرأته رجلا أيقتله فيقتلونه أم كيف يفعل سل لي يا عاصم رسول الله ﷺ عن ذلك فسأل عاصم رسول الله ﷺ فكره رسول الله ﷺ المسائل وعابها حتى كبر على عاصم ما سمع من رسول الله ﷺ فلما رجع عاصم إلى أهله جاءه عويمر فقال يا عاصم ماذا قال لك رسول الله ﷺ فقال عاصم لعويمر لم تأتني بخير قد كره رسول الله ﷺ المسألة التي سألت عنها فقال عويمر والله لا أنتهي حتى أسأل عنها رسول الله ﷺ فأقبل عويمر حتى أتى رسول الله ﷺ وسط الناس فقال يا رسول الله أرأيت رجلا وجد مع امرأته رجلا أيقتله فتقتلونه أم كيف يفعل فقال رسول الله ﷺ قد نزل فيك وفي صاحبتك فاذهب فأت بها قال سهل فتلاعنا وأنا مع الناس عند رسول الله ﷺ فلما فرغ عويمر قال كذبت عليها يا رسول الله إن أمسكتها فطلقها ثلاثا قبل أن يأمره رسول الله ﷺ
Bukhari narrated it in "Divorce," chapter "Whoever permits triple divorce," etc., no. 5259, and Muslim in "Lian," no. 1492, from the hadith of Malik through this route. It is also in the Muwatta (Yahya's recension), 2/566–567, and in al-Kubra, no. 5595.