Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30392 — A man who divorced his wife, was

Isa bin Asim said: Some people set out on a journey. They passed by a man and stayed with him, and during that time the man gave his wife three divorces. Then they returned and found him with that woman, so they brought him before Shurayh and said: "This man had given his wife three divorces, and we found him with that woman." The man was denying it. At this he said: "Do you testify that this man is an adulterer?" They repeated their statement as they had said it. Then he asked: "Do you testify that this man is an adulterer?" They repeated their words again, so he separated the two of them, did not apply the prescribed punishment to the two of them, and accepted their testimony as valid.