It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, his daughter Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her) set out from Makkah with Kinanah or Ibn Kinanah. The people of Makkah pursued her, and Habbar bin al-Aswad caught up with her. He kept prodding her camel with his spear until he threw her down, so that she miscarried and began to bleed. Banu Hashim and Banu Umayyah quarrelled over her. Banu Umayyah said: We have more right to her, because she was married to their cousin Abu al-As. She stayed with Hind bint Utbah bin Rabi'ah, and Hind used to say to her: All this has happened because of your father. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Zayd bin Harithah: "Will you not go and bring Zaynab to me?" He said: Of course, O Messenger of Allah! He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Take this ring of mine." So Zayd set off and left his camel behind. He kept acting with great care and tact until he met a shepherd. He asked: For whom do you graze? He said: For Abu al-As. He asked: Whose goats are these? He said: Zaynab bint Muhammad's. He walked with him some distance, then said: Will you give this ring to her and not mention it to anyone? He said: Yes. The shepherd went and gave her the ring. She recognised it and asked: Who gave you this? He said: A man. She asked: Where did you leave him? He told her the place. She remained silent until night came, then she went out to him. When she reached him, Zayd said: Mount (the camel). She said: No, you sit in front. So he sat in front and she rode behind him, and they reached Madinah. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: "She is the best of my daughters; she was made to suffer for my sake." When this reached Ali bin al-Husayn, he went to Urwah and said: What is this hadith that has reached me from you, in which you diminish the right of Fatimah? Urwah said: By Allah! Even if I were given the wealth of the East and the West, I would not diminish Fatimah's right; but from now on I will never narrate this hadith. Urwah said that this incident happened before the revelation of the verse: "Call them by (the names of) their fathers; that is more just in the sight of Allah" [Surah al-Ahzab: 5] . This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

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.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Sakhr al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him); he relates: I was a man who had been given (unusual strength and desire) in intimacy with women such as no one else had been given. When the month of Ramadan began, I made "zihar" against my wife (that is, I declared her like my mother's back), out of fear that I might do something (intimate) with her during some part of the night and it would then carry on until morning came and I would not be able to restrain myself. One night she was serving me when part of her body became uncovered to me, and I (overcome by desire) leapt upon her. When morning came, I went to my people and told them what had happened. I said: "Come with me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." They said: "No, by Allah! We will not go with you. We fear that Qur'an may be revealed about us, or that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) may say something about us whose shame would remain upon us. So go yourself and do as you see fit." So I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him the whole story. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Are you that man?" I said: I am that man, so pass the judgement of Allah upon me; I will be patient and hope for reward. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Free a slave." I struck the back of my neck with my hand and said: By the One who sent you with the truth! I own nothing but this (my own self). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Fast for two consecutive months." I said: O Messenger of Allah! Did what befell me not befall me only because of fasting (for I made zihar out of fear of breaking the fast, and it was during the fast that my desire overcame me)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then feed sixty poor people." I said: O Messenger of Allah! By the One who sent you with the truth! We spent this night in such a state that we had nothing for supper. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go to the one in charge of the charity of Banu Zurayq, and he will give it to you. Feed sixty poor people one wasq (roughly 180 kilograms of grain) from it, and use the rest to help your family." Then I returned to my people and said: I found narrowness with you. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. It has a supporting narration (shahid) from Yahya bin Abi Kathir from Abu Salamah bin Abd al-Rahman, except that in it he said "Salman bin Sakhr" (instead of Salamah).

It is narrated from Abu Salamah bin Abd al-Rahman and Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman bin Thawban that Sayyiduna Salman bin Sakhr al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) made zihar against his wife (that is, he declared her like his mother's back). Then the narrator mentioned a hadith similar to it (concerning the expiation). This chain of transmission is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) who had made zihar against his wife but had had intercourse with her before paying the expiation. He said: "O Messenger of Allah! I made zihar against my wife, but I was intimate with her before the expiation." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah have mercy on you, what drove you to that?" He said: "I saw her anklet (khalkhal) in the moonlight." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then do not go near her until you have done (the expiation) that Allah has commanded." Its supporting narration (shahid) is the hadith of Isma'il bin Muslim from Amr bin Dinar. Although the two Shaykhs did not use Isma'il or al-Hakam bin Aban as evidence, al-Hakam bin Aban is a truthful (saduq) narrator.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man made zihar against his wife, then on a moonlit night he saw her anklet, it pleased him, and he had intercourse with her. Then he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned the whole matter. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says: 'Before they touch one another' [Surah al-Mujadilah: 3] ." He said: "(Intercourse on my part) has already happened." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Now refrain (from further intimacy) until you have paid the expiation."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him); he relates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "There is no divorce in what a person does not own, and there is no freeing of a slave whom a person does not own." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it. Its supporting narration (shahid) is the well-known hadith on this topic from Amr bin Shu'ayb from his father from his grandfather.

Amr bin Shu'ayb narrates from his father, and he from his grandfather (Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As, may Allah be pleased with them both), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no divorce before marriage." And in the narration of Hushaym: "The son of Adam has no valid vow in what he does not own, no divorce in what he does not own, and no freeing of a slave in what he does not own."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that concerning a man who says, "If I marry such-and-such a woman, she is divorced," he said: "Ibn Mas'ud would not have said this, and if he did say it, it is the slip of a scholar (that is, the woman will not be divorced), because Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says: 'O you who believe! When you marry believing women and then divorce them' [Surah al-Ahzab: 49] ; Allah did not say, 'When you divorce believing women and then marry them.'" This hadith has a sahih chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.