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1198. Salamah bin Ṣakhr Al-Bayāḍī narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said, about the one who uttered Zihār and had intercourse before the atonement: "One atonement." (Ḍa'if)
(Abū 'Eisā said:) This Ḥadīth is Hasan Gharīb.
This is acted upon according to most of the people of knowledge. This is the view of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Mālik, Ash-Shāfi'ī, Aḥmad and Ishāq.
Some of them said that when he has intercourse with her before he fulfills the atonement, then he has to fulfill two atonements. This is the view of 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Mahdī.
Allāh have mercy upon you?' He said: 'I saw her anklets in the moonlight.' He said: 'Then do not go near her until you have done what Allāh ordered (for it).'" (Hasan)
This Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb.
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[1] See Al-Mujādilah 58:1-4.
Commentary
Word 'Zihār' is derived from 'Zahr' meaning back. This word is also used for a riding animal, and there is also a hint in it for sexual relationship between the husband and wife, that is why it has been used as a symbolic reference. In the period of Jahiliyyah, it was customary that if anybody wanted to make his wife unlawful for himself, he would say that she resembles his mother from the back.
