Muwatta 2396

Malik transmits from Ruzayq ibn Hakim al-Ayli that a man called Misbah employed his son, seemingly slow to him, and said to him: you adulterer. Ruzayq brought the matter before the court; when he was about to flog him, the son said: by God, if you flog him, I will confess to adultery against myself. The matter became unclear, so Ruzayq wrote to Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, who was then governor, and he wrote to him to permit his pardon. He also wrote to him: if he pardons, allow his pardon for himself; but if he slandered his two parents, and they have died or one of them, then take the prescribed punishment for him, unless he wants concealment. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prescribed Punishments (hudud). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas, Ruzayq ibn Hakim al-Ayli, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz. Built on in the chapters on false accusation (qadhf).