Musnad Ahmad — Hadith #44941

Affan told us, Jarir bin Hazim told us, he said, I heard Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abi Yaqoub, talking about Rabah, he said, “My family married me to a slave woman.” They had a Roman woman who gave birth to a black boy for me, and a Roman slave called Yohannes impaled her, so he began to speak to her as a Roman woman, and she became pregnant. She had given birth to a black boy like me, and she brought a boy who looked like a gecko. I asked her, “What is this?” and she said, “It is.” Who is Yohannis? So I asked Yohannis and he confessed. So I went to Othman bin Affan, may God be pleased with him, and I mentioned that to him. He sent for them and asked them, then he said: I will judge between you with the judgment of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. The child is for the bed, and the stone is for the prostitute. So he joined her to me. He said, “So he flogged them both, and she gave birth to me again.” A black boy...