Hadith 54

Sahih Muslim

Book 29: The Book of Legal Punishments

Chapter 7

Delaying the Hadd punishment in the case of women who have just given birth

باب تَأْخِيرِ الْحَدِّ عَنِ النُّفَسَاءِ، ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 1705b
وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنِ السُّدِّيِّ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ مَنْ أَحْصَنَ مِنْهُمْ وَمَنْ لَمْ يُحْصِنْ ‏.‏ وَزَادَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ ‏ ‏ ‏.‏
"‏ اتْرُكْهَا حَتَّى تَمَاثَلَ ‏"
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of as-Suddi with the same chain of trznsmitters, but he did not mention:

" Those who are married and those who are not married." There is also an addition in it:" I spare her until she is all right."