[AI] Utbah ibn Abi Waqqas had instructed his brother Sa‘d that the son of the slave-woman of Zam‘ah was from me, so take him into your care. When it was the year of the Conquest, Sa‘d took him and said: My brother’s son—he had entrusted him to me. Then ‘Abd ibn Zam‘ah stood up and said: My brother; he was born on my father’s bed. So they both went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Sa‘d said: O Messenger of Allah, my brother had entrusted him to me. ‘Abd ibn Zam‘ah said: He is my brother and the son of my father’s slave-woman. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: He is yours, O ‘Abd ibn Zam‘ah; the child belongs to the bed, and for the adulterer is the stone. Then he said to Sawdah bint Zam‘ah: Veil yourself from him, because of the resemblance he saw between him and ‘Utbah. She did not see him until she met Allah, the Exalted. This is the wording of the hadith of Abu ‘Abd Allah.
كَانَ عُتْبَةُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَهِدَ إِلَى أَخِيهِ سَعْدٍ أَنَّ ابْنَ وَلِيدَةِ زَمْعَةَ مِنِّي فَاقْبِضْهُ إِلَيْكَ فَلَمَّا كَانَ عَامُ الْفَتْحِ أَخَذَهُ سَعْدٌ فَقَالَ ابْنُ أَخِي قَدْ كَانَ عَهِدَ إِلِيَّ فِيهِ فَقَامَ عَبْدُ بْنُ زَمْعَةَ فَقَالَ أَخِي وُلِدَ عَلَى فِرَاشِ أَبِي فَتَسَاوَقَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ سَعْدٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنَّ أَخِي كَانَ عَهِدَ إِلِيَّ فِيهِ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ بْنُ زَمْعَةَ أَخِي وَابْنُ وَلِيدَةِ أَبِي فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ هُوَ لَكَ يَا عَبْدُ بْنَ زَمْعَةَ الْوَلَدُ لِلْفِرَاشِ وَلِلْعَاهِرِ الْحَجَرُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِسَوْدَةَ بِنْتِ زَمْعَةَ ؓ احْتَجِبِي مِنْهُ لَمَّا رَأَى مِنْ شَبَهِهِ بِعُتْبَةَ فَمَا رَآهَا حَتَّى لَقِيَتِ اللهَ ﷻ لَفْظُ حَدِيثِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ
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