on women part 02 from history

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Umar beating Abu Salmah’s wife for lying.

A narration states that "Umar took his stick and started hitting the wife of Abu Salmah just because she said her husband is not good but reality was that he was impotent as mentioned the narration itsef. Umar ra said after hitting her saying, "O Enemy of yourself, you have taken his youth and consumed his wealth, and now you are saying things that are not right about him." She said, "O Ameer al-Mumineen, let me off this time, and by Allah you will not see me doing this again." He said to her, "Fear Allah and be good companion to this old man." Then he turned to him and said, "Do not let what you have seen me to do to her prevent you from being a good companion to her." He said, "I will do that, O Ameer al-Mumineen."[Musnad Abu Dawood Tiyaalisi]

However, what was done by this woman was a forbidden matter as she lied against her husband and attributed to him what he had not done, and this is a slander. It is for this reason that ‘Umar  (ra)  with  him said to her: “…And then you come to inform about him something of which he is innocent.” In addition to this, she denied the good that her husband had done to her.

The story of ‘Umar  (ra)  with  him which you mentioned in the question, was also reported by Ibn Hajar in his book entitled “Al-Mataalib Al-‘Aaliyah”, through the route of Abu Daawood At-Tayaalisi  and he said that its chain of narrators is strong.

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