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and his father. In the two Sahīh collections, it is related that when the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) ruled that the child should be attributed to the man whose bed the mother shared—the man in question being Zamʿah, father of Sawdah bint Zamʿah, Mother of the Believers—he said:
وبين أبيه وفي الصحيحين أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لما قضى بالولد للفراش وصاحب الفراش زمعة أبو سودة بنت زمعة أم المؤمنين قال