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If a woman knew she was sleeping around, she would know at least that her children may not be her lawful husband's. And when coming to the Prophet to take the oath, she should not lie and say with certainty that they belonged to her husband because that would hold him financially responsible for them. The man could not say with certainty whose child was his. The woman can, however, say with certainty that the children belonged to her. And the Prophets tribe, or the islamic state, would provide for the children.[/quote]
A man could still be asked if he potentially had illegitimate children because then men who were faithful to their wives would be weeded out.

But it's all irrelevant because the pledge they were asked to make was forward-looking and concerned events of the future, not of the past.[/quote]

A man could be asked that but why? If he could not prove which child he fathered, why ask??[/quote]
Because it's a forward-looking pledge.  You could, for instance, ask men to comply with all the rules women were asked to comply with - not to lie, not to steal, not to fornicate etc.  There are no verses to indicate that happened.

Women, too, had no way of proving whose child was whose.  A woman could easily pretend her lover's child was her husband's.  All they had to go by was honor.[/quote]

Exactly, women had no way of proving who fathered their children so it was important they not say their children belonged to their lawful husbands.[/quote]

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