Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 31035 — Book of the Judgments

Abdullah bin Ubayd bin Umayr said: A brother from Banu Zurayq wrote to me asking in whose favour the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had ruled concerning the child of a woman who had performed li'an. So I wrote back to him that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had ruled concerning that child in favour of the mother, for she stands to the child in the place of a father as well as in the place of a mother.