"The child belongs to the bed [i.e., the husband of the bed's owner], and cover yourself from him, O Sawdah, for he is not a brother to you." (1)

3486 - Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed us, saying: Jarir narrated to us, from Mughirah, from Abu Wa'il, from Abdullah, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "The child belongs to the bed, and for the fornicator is the stone [i.e., deprivation]." Abu Abd al-Rahman said: I do not think this is Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (2), and Allah Almighty knows best (3)(4).

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(1) Authentic by virtue of corroborating evidence, except for his saying: "for he is not a brother to you," for Yusuf ibn al-Zubayr alone narrated it, and he is of unknown status—two narrators reported from him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in "al-Thiqat," and al-Hafiz said in "al-Taqrib": acceptable. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Ishaq ibn Ibrahim: he is Ibn Rahawayh, and Jarir: he is Ibn Abd al-Hamid, and Mansur: he is Ibn al-Mu'tamir, and Mujahid: he is Ibn Jabr, and Sawdah mentioned in the hadith is the daughter of Zam'ah, the Mother of the Believers, may Allah be pleased with her. The hadith is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (5649).

Ahmad also recorded it (16127) via the path of Sufyan al-Thawri, from Mansur, from Mujahid, from Ibn al-Zubayr, that Zam'ah had a slave girl... In its chain, Yusuf ibn al-Zubayr is not present.

Ahmad also recorded a similar version (27419) via the path of Isra'il ibn Yunus, from Mansur, from Mujahid, from a freed slave of the family of al-Zubayr, from Sawdah.

Al-Sindi said: "Yata'ti'uha" is an ifti'al form from al-wat' [intercourse], and its origin is "yawtati'uha," where the waw was changed to a ta' and assimilated into the ta', as in "yatta'idu" and "yattaqi," from al-wa'd [promise] and al-wiqayah [protection]. "He is not a brother to you" means: in terms of it being proper for you to enter upon him, otherwise he is a brother in the outward ruling of the Law due to the legal attribution [of paternity]. And it was said: this addition is not known in this hadith; rather, it is a false and rejected addition. Some have clung to it and held that there is no legal attribution [of paternity], and even gave Abd ibn Zam'ah the child as his slave, and this is a far-fetched interpretation. See "Fath al-Bari" 12/37-38.

(2) In (H) and the printed edition: "I do not think this is from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud," and above "from" there is a variant marking in (H).

(3) His saying: "and Allah Almighty knows best," is not in (R) and (M).

(4) Authentic by virtue of corroborating evidence; its narrators are trustworthy. Mughirah: he is Ibn Miqsam al-Dabbi, and Abu Wa'il: he is Shaqiq ibn Salamah, and Abdullah (the Companion in the hadith): he is Ibn Hudhafah, as the imam of hadith scholars, al-Bukhari, said. The compiler indicated after the hadith that he is not Ibn Mas'ud, though some hadith scholars have recorded it from =