Had this been recommended, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would have done it; and had he done it, it would have been transmitted, and it would not have been permissible to abandon or neglect it. As for their claim that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) performed the lian between them at the pulpit, this is not present in any of the well-known hadiths. Even if this were established, it is possible that it occurred by coincidence, for his gathering was by the pulpit, so he performed the lian between them where he was sitting. If the lian is between two disbelievers, the ruling regarding it is the same as the ruling regarding the lian between two Muslims. It is possible that it should be intensified by place, based on his saying regarding oaths: "If they have places that they hold sacred and fear to swear falsely in, they shall be made to swear there." Based on this, they are made to perform the lian in their places that they hold sacred: the Christian in the church, the Jew in the synagogue, and the Magian in the fire temple. If they do not have places they hold sacred, the judge makes them swear in his gathering, due to the impossibility of intensifying it by place. If the Muslim woman is menstruating, and we say that the lian between them takes place in the mosque, she stands at its door and does not enter it, because that is the closest place to it.

The Second Issue: Regarding the wordings of the lian and its manner. As for its wordings, they are five for each one of them. Its manner is that the Imam begins with the husband, makes him stand, and says to him: "Say four times: I testify by Allah that I am indeed among the truthful in what I have accused this wife of mine of, regarding adultery." He points to her if she is present, and with her presence and the act of pointing, there is no need for [lineage and naming], just as there is no need for that