permitted it (14) during the Farewell Pilgrimage for three days, then forbade it. Furthermore, because the rulings of marriage do not apply to it—such as divorce, zihar (injurious assimilation), li'an (imprecation), and inheritance—it is invalid, like all other invalid marriages. As for the statement of Ibn 'Abbas, it has been narrated that he retracted it. Abu Bakr narrated with his chain of transmission from Sa'id ibn Jubayr, who said: I said to Ibn 'Abbas: "The controversy (15) regarding mut'ah has become widespread, to the point that a poet said regarding it:
I say, now that our stay together has been long... O companion, do you have any interest in the fatwa of Ibn 'Abbas?
Do you desire a sweetheart of easy reach... who will be your companion until the people depart?"
He then stood up to deliver a sermon and said: "Indeed, mut'ah is like carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine (16)." As for the permission granted by the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) regarding it, its abrogation has been established. As for the narration from 'Umar—if it is authentic—the apparent meaning is that he only intended to report the prohibition of it by the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and his forbidding it, for it is not permissible for him to forbid what the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) had permitted and which remained upon its state of permissibility.
Section: If he marries her without (17) a condition, but it is his intention to divorce her after a month, or when his need in this land is fulfilled, the marriage is valid according to the general body of scholars, except
= It was also extracted by Al-Bukhari in: The Chapter on the Expedition of Khaybar, from the Book of Military Expeditions; in: The Chapter on the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) forbidding nikah al-mut'ah at the end, from the Book of Marriage; and in: The Chapter on the flesh of domesticated donkeys, from the Book of Sacrificial Animals. Sahih al-Bukhari 5/173, 7/16, 123. And by Muslim in: The Chapter on nikah al-mut'ah, from the Book of Marriage; and in: The Chapter on the prohibition of eating the flesh of domesticated donkeys, from the Book of Hunting. Sahih Muslim 2/1027, 1028, 3/1537, 1538. And by Al-Tirmidhi in: The Chapter on what has been narrated regarding the prohibition of nikah al-mut'ah, from the Chapters on Marriage. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 5/48. And by Ibn Majah in: The Chapter on the prohibition of nikah al-mut'ah, from the Book of Marriage. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/631. And by Al-Darimi in: The Chapter on the flesh of domesticated donkeys, from the Book of Sacrifices; and in: The Chapter on the prohibition of the mut'ah of women, from the Book of Marriage. Sunan al-Darimi 2/86, 140. And by Imam Ahmad in: Al-Musnad 1/79. (14) In M: "abaha-ha" (he permitted it). (15) Omitted from: Al-Asl, A, B. (16) Extracted by Al-Bayhaqi in: The Chapter on nikah al-mut'ah, from the Book of Marriage. Al-Sunan al-Kubra 7/205, and he mentioned the two verses with different narrations, just as Ibn Qutaybah cited the hadith and the two verses without attributing them. See 'Uyun al-Akhbar 4/95. (17) In B: "min ghayr" (without).
