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What is the authenticity of the circulated story about four men testifying before Al-Farooq Omar regarding adultery, where three of them testified to seeing "like a stick in a kohl container and a pen in an inkwell," while the fourth described the woman's legs shaking on the man's shoulders, whereupon Al-Farooq Omar carried out the punishment on them? And does this narration have an Isnad (chain of transmission)?

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The questioner is advised that some of the phrases mentioned were not found during the search, such as "and the pen is in the inkwell" and "I saw her legs on his shoulders shaking like the ears of a running donkey."

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