Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30402 — Averting hadd punishments on account

Kulayb said that Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "While I was in Yemen, a pregnant woman was brought to me and I questioned her about it. She said: 'Are you asking about a pregnant woman who has been previously married and is pregnant without a husband? By Allah, since I accepted Islam I have taken no friend and no companion. But one day I was sleeping in the courtyard of my house. By Allah, nothing woke me except a man who kicked me with his foot and cast into my belly something like a shooting star. Then I watched him as he turned his back and went away, and I do not know who he was among the creation of Allah.'" He said: "I wrote to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) about this, and Sayyiduna Umar wrote back: 'Bring her and some people of her tribe to me.'" He said: "We came to him during the Hajj season, and Sayyiduna Umar said, as if angry: 'Perhaps you have got ahead of me in something concerning the matter of this woman?' I said: 'No, she and some people of her tribe are with me.' Then he questioned her, and she told him just as she had told me. Then he asked her people about her, and they praised her. At this Sayyiduna Umar said: 'A young woman of Tihamah, a heavy sleeper; such a thing does happen at times.' So he gave her provisions and clothed her, and he enjoined her people to treat her well."