If an unmarried woman commits adultery after the marriage contract but before consummation, and she becomes pregnant from adultery, should she be treated as a previously married woman or an unmarried woman in terms of punishment, and should her pregnancy be attributed to the adulterer, to her, or to the one who contracted marriage with her but did not consummate it?

If a woman commits adultery after the marriage contract (aqd) but before consummation (dukhool), she is subject to the Hadd punishment for an unmarried person, which is lashing. As for stoning (rajm), it requires sexual intercourse in the vagina after a valid marriage contract.

The child resulting from this adultery: 1. If born less than six months after the marriage contract: The child is considered a product of adultery and is attributed to its mother. It is not attributed to her husband or to the adulterer, because adultery is Islamically forbidden. 2. If born six months or more after the marriage contract: The child is attributed to the husband if intercourse was possible, according to the majority of scholars. The Hanafis hold that the child is attributed to the husband merely by virtue of the marriage contract, without stipulating the possibility of consummation, as long as it is conceivable; based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "The child belongs to the bed (i.e., the marital bed)." Ibn Taymiyyah, however, believes that the wife does not become a "bed" until after consummation.