A man from the captives of Mecca was carrying him. He said: I came until I reached the shade of a wall among the walls of Mecca on a moonlit night. He said: Then ʿAnāq came, and she caught sight of the blackness of my shadow beside the wall. When she reached me, she recognized me and said: "Marthad?" I said: "Marthad." She said: "Welcome and greetings. Come, spend the night at our place tonight." He said: I said: "O ʿAnāq, Allah has forbidden fornication." She said: "O people of the tents, this man is carrying your captives!" He said: So eight men followed me, and I took the road of al-Khandamah, until I reached a cave or a grotto and entered it. They came until they stood over my head and urinated, and their urine dripped over my head, but Allah blinded them to me. He said: Then they went back, and I returned to my companion and carried him—and he was a heavy man—until I reached al-Idhkhir, where I removed his fetters. I kept carrying him, and he helped me, until I arrived at Medina. I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: "O Messenger of Allah, shall I marry ʿAnāq?" twice. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, remained silent and did not reply to me at all, until the verse was revealed: {The fornicator marries none but a fornicatress or a polytheist woman, and the fornicatress—none marries her except a fornicator or a polytheist} [al-Nūr: 3]. Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "O Marthad, the fornicator marries none but a fornicatress or a polytheist woman, and the fornicatress—none marries her except a fornicator or a polytheist, so do not marry her."(1)

This is a good and ghareeb hadith; we do not know it except through this chain.

3452 - Hannād narrated to us, saying: ʿAbadah ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Sulaymān--------------------------------------------
(1) Its chain is good, and it was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2051) and al-Nasāʾī 6/66. It is in "Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār" (4552).