What is the ruling of Islamic law concerning a woman who married and did not conceive a child with her husband until three years later, then consorted with another man without observing the iddah (waiting period) and became pregnant by him with a baby girl, and she does not know whether the child is her husband's or not, and is she obligated to inform her husband of this?
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The woman must perform sincere repentance for the obscenity she committed. She must also seek forgiveness from her husband, unless she fears a greater harm, in which case she should generally seek his absolution without specifying the sin. She must be wary of illicit seclusion and mixing, and adhere to uprightness, the , companionship with righteous women, and attending lessons of knowledge. The child is attributed to the woman's husband, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The child is for the bed." Her ignorance of whether her husband can procreate or not is not taken into consideration.
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