Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 7842

Sayyiduna Asim bin Adi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that he was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when this verse was revealed: "Then they do not bring four witnesses." I said, "Until he first brings four witnesses, the vile man will have fulfilled his need in the meantime!" The narrator says: He had not yet got up when his paternal cousin, the son of his father's brother, came, and his wife was with him, carrying a child. The woman was saying, "This child is yours," and the man was saying, "This child is not mine." Then the verses about li'an were revealed. The narrator says: I was the first person to speak about it, and I was the first to be tried with it. (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Nasa'i (may Allah have mercy on him) recorded a hadith from Sayyiduna Asim (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning li'an, but it is other than this hadith.
Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.