13. Prohibition on anal intercourse with one's wife

Anal intercourse with one's wife is h a r h , according to 'Ah (&). This was narrated from him by Ibn ~ u d h a h . ' ~ ~ It was narrated that Abu al-Mu'tamir sald: '"Ali called out from the minbar, saying: 'Ask me.' A man sad: 'Can one have anal intercourse with women?' He said: 'You have sunk very low, may Allah (&) bring you low. Have you not seen that Allah (&) says: (You commit alF6hzshah [sodomy - the worst sin] which none has preceded you in [committing] it in the 'iilarneen [mankind and jinn]) (Quran 29: 28)?"' That was also narrated from Abdullah ibn 'Abbzs, Abdullah ~ b n 'Amr and Abn Hurayrah; and it was the view of Sa'eed ibn alMusayyab, Abu Ba?a ibn 'Abdur-R-h, Muj%id and 'Ihrimah. It was also the view of Abu Haneefah, ash-Sb%fafa'i, m a d , the M%lkis and the - Dh&thms (the literalists).lg3 The evidence for this prohibition is the words of the Messenger of Allah (g): "Cursed be the one who has anal intercourse with his wife."'94 The point here is that disallowing a thing, and stating that the one who does it is cursed, indicates that it is 14. 'Iddah of a pregnant woman whose husband has died If a woman is pregnant when her husband dies, and she gives blah before the end of her 'iddah, then according to 'Ali (&) she should observe 'iddah for the longer period, meaning the 'iddah of pregnancy, if she does not give birth before the end of the 'iddah of the widow. However, if she gives birth before that, she should observe 'iddah for four months and ten days (the 'iddah of the widow). That was narrated from Ibn Rnshd and others.lg6 It was narrated that 'Abdur-R&m%n ibn Ma'qil said: "I was present when a Financial andjudiciary institutions at the time uf 'Ali man asked 'Ali about a woman whose husband died when she was pregnant. He said: 'She should observe 'iddah for the longer period."'197 It was narrated that ash-Sha'bi used to say: "The 'iddah of the pregnant woman is the longer of the two periods."'98 Amir alMu'mineen 'Ali (4) reconciled the two verses: (And for those who are pregnant [whether they are divorced or their husbands are dead], their 'Zddah [prescribed period] is until they lay down their burden) (Quran 65: 4) and (And those of you who die and leave wives behind them, they [the wives] shall wait [as regards their marriage] for four months and ten days) (Quran 2: 234), because one verse is general in meaning and the other is more specific, so there is no reason to apply one to the exclusion of the other. Both should be applied together, so as to be certain and to reconcile them and avoid contradi~tion.'~~ The more correct view is that her 'iddah ends when her pregnancy ends, in either case. It is narrated in a sound report from Abdullah ibn 'Utbah that Subay'ah hint al-Hcth told him that she was married to Sa'd ibn Khawlah, one of Banu ' h i r ibn Lu'ayy, who was one of those who had been present at Badr. He died during the farewell pilgrimage when she was pregnant, and she gave birth shortly after he died. When her period of post-childbirth bleeding ended, she adorned herself to receive offers of marriage. Abu asSanibil ibn Ba'kak, a man from Banu 'Abdud-Dk, entered upon her and said to her: "Why do I see you beautified? Perhaps you are hoping to get married? By Allah, you will not get married until four months and ten days have passed!" Subay'ah said: "When he said that to me, I put on my outer garments in the evening and went to the Messenger of Allah (gg), and I asked him about that, and he answered me that my 'iddah had ended when I gave birth, and he told me to get married if I wanted to."Z00 This is the view of the majority of Muslim scholars. It was said that there was consensus on this point after this hadith was heard.z01 Al-Sha'bi said: ''I do not believe that 'ALi ibn Abi Tilib (&) said

Xli ibn Abi Tilib that the 'iddah of a woman whose husband dies is the longer of the two periods."202 Perhaps 'Ali (&) said that because he had not heard the hadith of Subay'ah, otherwise he would not have gone against a proven, sound hadith from the Prophet (g).203 Some rulings having to do with financial dealings