From Their Own Books

Hiring a woman for zina and the hadd

Treating the fee in paid zina as a 'dower' so that the hadd falls away by doubt, against the Quran's tying of the fee to a chaste bond alone.

Positions of the schoolsScholarsSource
HanafiAbu Hanifaالمبسوط للسرخسي Vol. 9, p. 58Al-Sarakhsi: in Abu Hanifa's view there is no hadd on a man who hires a woman for zina and commits it, nor on her