Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30762 — A man who says: I committed zina

Ata bin Yasar said: Sayyiduna Ma'iz bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and confessed to adultery himself. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: With whom? He said: With such and such a woman, who is the slave woman of the son of so-and-so. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) sent a messenger to that woman, and she denied it. He (peace and blessings be upon him) let that woman go, and he held the man who had himself confessed to adultery. And it is not mentioned that he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him the prescribed punishment for false accusation.