It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when Hilal bin Umayyah accused his wife (of adultery), it was said to him: By Allah! The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) will give you eighty lashes. He said: Allah is far too just to have me given eighty lashes when He knows that I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. By Allah! He will never have me lashed. Then the verse of li'an (mutual imprecation) was revealed, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) summoned them both and said: "Allah knows that one of you is lying; so will either of you repent?" Hilal said: By Allah! I am truthful. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Swear by Allah, besides whom there is no god, that you are truthful; say this four times, and the fifth time say: If I am lying, may the curse of Allah be upon me." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stop him at the fifth, for it is binding." Then Hilal swore. Then the woman swore four times: By Allah, besides whom there is no god, he (Hilal) is among the liars; and the fifth time: if he is truthful, may the wrath of Allah be upon her (the woman). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stop her at the fifth, for it is binding." The woman hesitated and was about to confess, but then she said: I will not disgrace my people. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If she gives birth to a child with dark-rimmed eyes, deep black pupils, full buttocks, and fleshy thighs and shins, then he belongs to the man she has been accused with; and if she gives birth to him sallow in complexion, slender in body and with straight hair, then he belongs to Hilal bin Umayyah." Then the child was born with the description of the evil (the accusation). Ayyub said that Muhammad bin Sirin said: The man with whom Hilal bin Umayyah accused her was Sharik bin Sahma'; he was the brother of al-Bara' bin Malik, the brother of Anas bin Malik through his mother. His mother was black, and Sharik used to stay at Hilal's house. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari, but he did not record it with this wording; rather, he recorded the hadith of Hisham bin Hassan from Ikrimah in abridged form.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say, when the verse of li'an was revealed; he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any woman who brings into the lineage of a family a child who is not from them (that is, attributes a child born of adultery to her husband) has no share with Allah, and Allah will never admit her into His Paradise. And any man who (knowingly) denies his child while he is looking at him (that is, rejects a child born of his own seed), Allah Almighty will veil Himself from him and will disgrace him before all the creation, the first and the last." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.