Hadith 16

(The book) ‘Taweel al Ayaat Al Zaahira’ – Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, from Ahmad Bin Howzat, from Al Nahawandi, from Abdullah Bin Hammad, from Nasr Bin Yahya, from Al Muqtabisi Bin Abdul Rahman, from his father, from his grandfather who said, ‘There was a man from the companions of Rasool-Allah-saww with Umar Bin Al-Khattab. He sent him in an army, and he was absent for six months, then arrived, and he had been with his wife for six months. She conceived from him and came with a child of six months. He denied it (the child being his). He came with her to Umar and said, ‘O commander of the faithful! I was in the regiment you had sent me in, and you know I have arrived after six months, and I was with my wife and she has come with a boy, and here he is, and she claims he is from me? ’
Umar said to him, ‘What is that you are saying, O woman? ’ She said, ‘By Allah-azwj! No man has overcome me apart from him, and I have not been immoral, and he is his son’ – and the name of the man was Al-Haysam. Umar said to her, ‘Is it true what your husband is saying? ’ She said, ‘He speaks the truth, O commander of the faithful! ’
Umar ordered with her to be stoned to death, and a pit was dug up for her, then she was entered into it. (News of) that reached Ali-asws, and he-asws came over hurriedly until he joined up with her and grabbed her by her hand and extracted her from the pit. Then he-asws said to Umar, ‘Be kind upon yourself, she had spoken the truth. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying in His-azwj Book: and his bearing and his weaning is of thirty months; [46: 15]; and Said regarding the breast-feeding: And the mothers should breastfeed their children for two years complete, [2: 233]. Thus, the bearing and the breast-feeding is for thirty months, and this is Al-Husayn-asws, a son-asws of six months (bearing)’. At that, Umar said, ‘Had it not been for Ali-asws, Umar would have been destroyed! ’’[19]