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3487. It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbās that a man came to the Prophet ﷺ who had declared Zihār from his wife, then he had intercourse with her. He said: "O Messenger of Allāh, I declared Zihār on my wife, then I had intercourse with her before I offered the expiation." He said: "What made you do that, may Allāh have mercy on you?" He said: "I saw her anklets in the light of the moon." He said: "Do not approach her until you have done that which Allāh, the Mighty and Sublime, has commanded." (Sahīh)
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[1] When a man says to his wife: "You are to me as my mother's back." Intimacy with her thus becomes forbidden, but she was left in a kind of limbo, as she was not fully divorced or allowed to seek marriage with another.
Commentary
Zihâr means someone tells his wife, 'You are like my mother's back to me.' The objective happens to be to forbid one's wife upon oneself. If some other words are used to forbid her, then expiation for the oath is enough. But if someone forbids (one's wife upon oneself) by comparing her with one's mother's back, a very severe expiation shall have to be given, because the mother is an extremely revered person. To call one's wife one's mother in order to forbid her, is a grave insult to mother. The expiation for Zihâr consists of freeing a slave; if not possible, to fast the days of two consecutive months; if this is not possible, then the expiation is to feed sixty poor people. Sexual intercourse is forbidden until the expiation is performed.
