Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted something similar on the authority of Sulaiman b. Yasar quoting Salama b. Sakhr who said,“I was a man who was more given than others to sexual intercourse.”Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted. The version of Abu Dawud and Darimi has,“Feed sixty poor people with a camel-load of dates.

Sulaiman b. Yasar on the authority of Salama b. Sakhr, reported the Prophet as saying about one who vows to make his wife like his mother’s back and has intercourse with her before making atonement,“There is one atonement.”* * Atonement for breaking the vow should be made before doing so, but if the vow is broken then the same atonement is enough. Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it.

‘Ikrima told on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbas that a man who had vowed to make his wife like his mother’s back had intercourse with her before making atonement, so he went to the Prophet and mentioned that to him. He asked him what had induced him to do that and he replied,“Messenger of God, I saw the whiteness of her silver anklets in the moonlight and could not restrain myself from having intercourse with her.”God's Messenger laughed and ordered him not to go near her till he had made atonement. Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Tirmidhi transmitted something similar, saying this is a hasan sahih gharib tradition. Abu Dawud and Nasa’i transmitted something similar both with a full isnad and in mursal form, Nasa’i saying that the mursal version is nearer the truth than the one with a full isnad.

Mu'awiya b. al-Hakam told that he went to God’s Messenger and said,“Messenger of God, I have a slave girl who was herding sheep of mine. I went to her, having missed a sheep from the flock, and asked her about it, and she told me it had been eaten by a wolf. I was annoyed with her, and being human, I struck her on the face. As it is my duty to set free a slave, should I set her free?”God’s Messenger asked her where God was and she replied that he was in heaven. He asked her who he was and she replied that he was God's Messenger. He then told him to set her free. Malik transmitted it. In Muslim’s version he said,“I had a slave girl who was herding sheep of mine in the direction of Uhud and al-Jawwaniya. One day I looked and saw that a wolf had gone off with one of our sheep. Now I am a man who becomes annoyed just as others do, but I gave her a blow and then went to God’s Messenger. He treated my offence as serious, and so I asked him whether I should set her free. He told me to bring her and when I did so he asked her where God was and she replied that He was in heaven. He asked her who he was and she replied that he was God’s Messenger. He then told me to set her free, for she was a believer.”* *This chapter has only one section.

Sahl b. Sa'd as-Sa‘idi told that ‘Uwaimir al-'Ajlani asked God’s Messenger:“Tell me about a man who finds a man along with his wife. Should he kill him and then be killed by you1, or how should he act?” He replied,“A revelation has been sent down about you and your wife2, so go away and bring her.”Sahl said that they cursed one another in the mosque and that he was along with the people who were with God’s Messenger. Then when they finished ‘Uwaimir said,“I shall have lied against her, Messenger of God, if I keep her,”and pronounced her divorce three times. God’s Messenger then said to the people,“Look, and if she bears a child which is black, and has very black eyes, large buttocks and fat legs, I cannot but imagine that ‘Uwaimir has spoken the truth about her; but if she bears a reddish child like the lizard with red spots (wahara), I cannot but imagine that ‘Uwaimir has lied against her.”She gave birth to a child like that described by God’s Messenger in declaring that ‘Uwaimir had spoken the truth, and afterwards its lineage was traced to its mother. (Bukhari and Muslim.) 1. Some texts read as translated above; others use the third person, with reference to the family of the man and their revenge for killing him. 2. Al-Qur'an 24:6.

Ibn ‘Umar said that the Prophet made a man and his wife invoke curses when the man disowned her child, and separated them and attributed the child to the woman. In his tradition transmitted by both of them it says that God's Messenger exhorted and admonished the man and informed him that punishment in this world is easier than that in the next. He then summoned the woman and exhorted and admonished her and told her that punishment in this world is easier than that in the next. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

He reported the Prophet as saying to two who were invoking curses regarding one another,“Your reckoning is in God’s hands, for one of you is lying.”He then told the man that he could not remarry her, whereupon he said,“Messenger of God, what about my property?”* He replied,“There is no property for you. If you have spoken the truth, it is the price of your having had the right to intercourse with her; and if you have lied against her, it is more remote still from you than she is.”* Referring to the dower be had paid. (Bukhari and Muslim.).

Ibn ‘Abbas said:Hilal b. Umayya accused his wife in the Prophet’s presence of having committed adultery with Sharik b. Sahma'. When the Prophet told him that he must produce evidence or receive punishment on his back, he said,“Messenger of God, when one of us sees a man having intercourse with his wife, must he go and seek evidence?”But the Prophet merely replied that he must produce evidence or receive punishment on his back. Hilal then said,“By Him who sent you with the truth, I am speaking truly. May God send down something which will free my back from punishment!”Then Gabriel descended and brought down to him,“And those who make charges against their spouses,”reciting till he reached,“if he is one of those who speak the truth”(Al-Qur’an 24:6-9).Then Hilal came and gave testimony and the Prophet was saying,“God knows that one of you is lying. Will one of you repent?”Then the woman got up and testified, but when she was about to do it a fifth time they stopped her and told her that it would be the deciding one. Ibn ‘Abbas told that she then hesitated and drew back, so that they thought she would renounce what she had said; but thereafter she said,“I shall not disgrace my people forever,”and went on with her declaration. The Prophet told them to look and see whether she gave birth to a child with eyes looking as if they had antimony in them, wide buttocks and fat legs, for if she did, Sharik b. Sahma' would be its father. Then when she gave birth to a child of that description the Prophet said,“If it were not for what has already been stated in God’s Book, I would have dealt severely with her.”Bukhari transmitted it.

Abu Huraira told that Sa'd b. ‘Ubada asked,“If I were to find a man with my wife, should I not touch him before bringing four witnesses?”Then when God’s Messenger replied that that was so, he said,“By no means. I swear by Him who has sent you with the truth that I would take my sword to him before that.”God’s Messenger said,“Listen to what your chief says. He is jealous of his honour, but I am more jealous than he is and God is more jealous than I am.”Muslim transmitted it.

Al-Mughira told that Sa'd b 'Ubada said,“If I saw a man with my wife I would strike him with the sword, and not with the flat of it.”When God’s Messenger heard of that he said,“Are you surprised at Sa'd’s jealousy? I swear by God that I am more jealous than he is and that God is more jealous than I am. Because of God’s jealousy He has prohibited abominations both open and secret. No one is fonder of receiving an excuse than God, on which account He has sent warners and announcers of good news; and no one is fonder of praise than God, on which account God has promised paradise.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)