a minor [child]. As for us, the saying of the Almighty: {And do not marry those whom your fathers married of women} (3). Intercourse is called marriage (nikah). A poet said:

• If you commit adultery, perform it as a [valid] marriage *

Therefore, it is included (4) in the generality of the verse, and there is a piece of evidence in the verse that directs it towards intercourse, which is His saying, the Almighty: {Indeed, it was an immorality and hateful [to God] and was evil as a way}. This severity only applies to intercourse. It was narrated from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that he said: "God does not look at a man who has looked at the private part of a woman and her daughter" (5). Al-Juzajani narrated with his chain of transmission from Wahb ibn Munabbih, who said: "Cursed is the one who looks at the private part of a woman and her daughter" (6). I mentioned this to Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, and he admired it. Furthermore, because that which attaches [the ruling] of prohibition to lawful intercourse also attaches to prohibited [intercourse], like the intercourse with a menstruating woman. And because marriage is a contract that is invalidated by intercourse through doubt, so it is also invalidated by prohibited intercourse, like [the state of] ihram. Their hadith, we do not know its authenticity, and it is merely a statement of Ibn Ashwa' (7), one of the judges of Iraq. Imam Ahmad said the same. It is also said that it is a statement of Ibn Abbas. Intercourse with a minor is forbidden, and then it is nullified by intercourse through doubt.

Section: Intercourse is of three types; lawful, which is intercourse in a valid marriage or through ownership of the right hand (slavery), and the prohibition of affinity is attached to it by consensus, and it becomes (8) a prohibited bond (mahram) for those for whom she was prohibited;