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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"
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