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Is doubting a wife's deletion of calls and messages considered an accusation of unchastity (qadhf)? Is the husband sinful and required to offer expiation for that? And what is the ruling on his taking a false oath (yamin ghamus) to her brother that he did not call her "O traitor," when in fact he did?

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What the questioner said is not slander. It is not permissible for the husband to harbor ill-will towards his wife without proof, for Allah Almighty says: "O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin." If there is no suspicion that calls for doubt, then he must repent. As for the "yameen al-ghamūs" (a false oath sworn deliberately to usurp another's right), it is a grave offense and one must repent from it.

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