Al-Kafi 14627

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzayl, from Abu Al Sabbah Al Kinany, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘They came to Umar with a woman who had been married to an old man. So when he had copulated with her, fell dead upon her belly. So she came up with a child, but his sons claimed that she had been immoral and testified against her. So Umar order with her to be stoned. So Ali^asws passed by her, so she said, ‘O cousin of Rasool-Allah^saww! There is a proof for me’. He^asws said: ‘Bring me^asws your proof’. So she handed over a letter to him^asws. So he^asws read it. So he^asws said: ‘This woman is letting you know of the day she was married, and the day she was copulated with and how her copulation was. Return the woman!’ So when it was the morning, he^asws called over some children of equal ages, and called the child (of the woman) along with them. So he^asws said to them: ‘Play’, until the playing was exhausting for them, he^asws said: ‘Sit down’. When they had taken their places, he^asws shouted at them. So the children stood up, and the boy (of the woman) leaned upon his hands (in order to stand up). So Ali^asws called him over and made him inherit him from his father, and whipped his brothers for the false accusation by a legal penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) each. So Umar said to him^asws, ‘How did you^asws do this?’ He^asws said: ‘I^asws recognised the weakness of the old man in the leaning of the boy upon his hands (when he tried to get up)’.

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