An Analytical Jurisprudential Study of the Prophetic Hadith "Paternity of the Child goes to the Marital Bed "

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the text of the Hadith "Paternity of the child goes to the marital bed", extracting jurisprudential implications and examining (in a single work) various Islamic Fiqh issues  discussed by jurists either by citing or deriving from the Hadith. The inductive-analytical methodology was adopted. The study consists of an introduction, four sections, and a conclusion. The introduction highlights the Hadith significance. Section one discusses the Hadith's words implications.  Section two explores the Hadith general and specific issues. Section three covers the general evidences and rulings derived from the Hadith. The study findings showed the Hadith "The child’s father is decided by the marital bed ’’ embodied the concise, comprehensive speech attributed to the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him). It was also revealed that the Hadith's words had profound jurisprudential implications. The study uncovered controversial issues arising from the Prophet's ruling that the boy belonged to Abd ibn Zomaah, while instructing his sister, Sawdah bint Zomaah to veil herself from him, based on caution, piety, forbidding the permissible principles.