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Anal Sex

Quran

Sûrah 2:223
"Your wives are a tilth unto you; so go to your tilth when or how you will."

This is the ayah that is understood as forbidding anal sex.

"Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas: Ibn Umar misunderstood (the Qur'anic verse, "So come to your tilth however you will") - may Allah forgive him. 

The fact is that this clan of the Ansar, who were idolaters, lived in the company of the Jews who were the people of the Book. They (the Ansar) accepted their superiority over themselves in respect of knowledge and the followed most of their actions. The people of the Book (i.e., the Jews) used to have intercourse with their women on one side alone (i.e., lying on their backs). This was the most concealing position for (the vagina of) the women. This clan of the Ansar adopted this practice from them. But the tribe of the Quraysh used to uncover their women completely, and seek pleasure with them from in front and behind and laying them on their backs.

When the muhajirun (the immigrants) came to Medina, a man married a woman of the Ansar. He began to do the same kind of action with her, but she disliked it, and said to him: We were approached on one side (i.e. lying on the back); do it so, otherwise keep away from me. The matter of theirs spread widely and it reached the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him).

So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur'anic verse: "Your wives are a tilth to you, so come to your tilth however you will," i.e., from in front, from behind or lying on the back. But this verse meant the place of the delivery of the child, i.e., the vagina." 
Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 11, Number 2159

Allah’s messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) has said:
"Accursed is he who has sex with his wife in her anus."
Abu Dawud and Imam Ahmad [ibn Hanbal], and established as authentic in Sahih al-Jami’ 5889.

"Beware of the anus and the menstrual period."
Imam Ahmad [ibn Hanbal] and Abu Dawud; also in Sahih al-Jami’ 1141.

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) declared that the Jews used to say: When a man has intercourse with his wife through the vagina but being on her back the child will have squint, so the verse came down: "Your wives are your tilth; go then unto your tilth as you may desire"
Bokhari Book 8, Number 3363