Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: An-Noor, Ayah 6

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وَٱلَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ أَزْوَٰجَهُمْ وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُمْ شُهَدَآءُ إِلَّآ أَنفُسُهُمْ فَشَهَٰدَةُ أَحَدِهِمْ أَرْبَعُ شَهَٰدَٰتٍۭ بِٱللَّهِ ۙ إِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ
And those who accuse their wives [of adultery] and have no witnesses except themselves - then the witness of one of them [shall be] four testimonies [swearing] by Allah that indeed, he is of the truthful.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And those who accuse their wives of fornication but have no witnesses to substantiate this except themselves — which happened with some Companions — then the testimony of one of them fa-shahādatu ahadihim the subject shall be to testify swearing by God four times araba‘a shahādātin is in the accusative as a verbal noun that he is indeed being truthful in accusing his wife of committing fornication

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(As for those who accuse their wives) of committing adultery (but have no witnesses) for their accusation (except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah) other than Whom there is no god (that he is of those who speak the Truth) about his accusation of his wife;

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