A woman falsely accused who was once owned as a slave

Ayyub reports: I wrote to Abu Qilabah asking him about a woman who is slandered and who had once been owned as a slave. He wrote back to me: "The one who slanders her is to be given eighty lashes."

Abu Ma'shar reports from Ibrahim concerning an umm walad who was freed and then slandered. He said: "The one who slanders her is to be lashed."

Ma'mar reports that al-Zuhri used to say: "When a woman has once been owned as a slave and is then freed, the prescribed punishment (hadd) is applied to the one who slanders her."

Qatadah reports from al-Hasan al-Basri concerning a woman who had once been owned as a slave and was then slandered. He said: "The one who slanders her is not to be lashed."