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What is the punishment for the young man and woman who committed adultery and had a child attributed to the woman's husband? And where will this child live? And is it permissible to attribute him to his biological father or to the woman's husband?

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Adultery is one of the most heinous sins and major transgressions. Its punishment for a free, unmarried person is one hundred lashes and banishment for one year, while for a married person, it is stoning to death. The child born from the adultery of a married woman is not attributed to the adulterer; rather, he is attributed to her husband unless the husband disavows him through li'an (oath of condemnation), in which case his lineage is severed from the husband and remains solely with his mother.

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