٨- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْهَاشِمِيِّ عَنْ بَعْضِ مَشِيخَتِهِ قَالَ قَالَتِ امْرَأَةٌ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَسَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ عَنْ رَجُلٍ تَدَّعِي عَلَيْهِ امْرَأَتُهُ أَنَّهُ عِنِّينٌ وَيُنْكِرُ الرَّجُلُ قَالَ تَحْشُوهَا الْقَابِلَةُ بِالْخَلُوقِ وَلا تُعْلِمُ الرَّجُلَ وَيَدْخُلُ عَلَيْهَا الرَّجُلُ فَإِنْ خَرَجَ وَعَلَى ذَكَرِهِ الْخَلُوقُ صَدَقَ وَكَذَبَتْ وَإِلا صَدَقَتْ وَكَذَبَ.
8. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Khalid from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl al- Hashimiy from certain persons of his teachers who have said the following: “It is about the case of a woman before abu ‘Abd Allah , when a man asked him (the Imam) about a man against whom his wife alleges that he is impotent but the man denies it, abu ‘Abd Allah , said, ‘She must allow the nurse to fill her with al-Khaluq (a certain perfume) without allowing the man to know. He then goes to bed with her; if perfume is found on his penis he has told the truth, otherwise, she has spoken the truth and he has lied.’” 