Hadith regarding the use of Nikah Mut'ah after Muhammad

:"This is a sub-article of Hadiths regarding the legality of Nikah Mut'ah

There are several recorded oral traditions (Arabic: "Hadith") from Muhammad used either to prove or to disprove the legality of Nikah Mut'ah, an Islamic marriage form. This article lists those hadith that refer to its used after the era of Muhammad and provides the classical and modern Shi'a and Sunni interpretation provided by Islamic scholars using the Science of hadith on each of those hadith.

For a more general disscusion regarding the present day legality of Nikah Mut'ah, see Muslim controversies related to Nikah Mut'ah.

List

Ibn Abbas

Ibn Abbas has issued verdicts in favor of its legality according to multiple sources.

Shi'a quote [ [http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/mutah/en/chap5.php Answering-Ansar.org :: Mut'ah, a comprehensive guide ] ] :
*In Fatih al-Qadir: "Ibn Abbas said the verse of Mut'ah - i.e. it has not been abrogated."
*In Tafseer Mu'alim al Tanzeel: "Ibn Abbas said: "The verse of Mut'ah was an order and it's Halal."
*In Tafseer Kabeer: "The verse of Mut'ah appears in the Qur'an, no verse has come down to abrogate it."

We read in Sahih Bukhari:

presentScholar|Ibn Kathir|14th|Shafi`i writes [Tafsir ibn Kathir Surah an-Nisa, Page 3 under the ] :

Muawiya

presentScholar|Ibn Hajar Asqalani|15th|Shafi`i writes [Fath al-Bari, Volume 9 pages 143-144 [http://www.al-eman.com/hadeeth/viewchp.asp?BID=12&CID=446#s1] ] :cquote|bgcolor=#F0FFF0|Mu'awiya contracted Mut'ah with a woman from Ta'if and this narration carries a sahih chain.When Mu'awiya arrived in Ta'if, he performed Mut'ah with an unnamed slave belonging to Banu Hazrmee called Ma'ana, Jabir states that remained alive throughout Mu'awiya's reign, and he gave her yearly stipends every year.

Asma bint Abu Bakr

Multiple sources state that Asma bint Abu Bakr, the daughter of Abu Bakr, was engaged in a Nikah Mut'ah with Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, whom the Sunnis regard as one of the Ten promised Paradise. Thise union is said to have resulted in several children.

a'id ibn Jubayr

presentScholar|‘Abd ar-Razzaq|9th writes [Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq, Kitab al Talaq, Bab al Mutah, Hadith 14020 [http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/archive/showHadiths2.php?BNo=1646&BkNo=17&KNo=16&startno=25] ] :

Views

unni view

The Sunni have concluded that a large number of notable Salaf verdicted Nikah Mut'ah to be legal after Muhammad's era.

In the words of PresentScholar|Fakhr al-Din al-Razi|13th|Sunni|Shafi'i:

PresentScholar|Waheed uz-Zaman|?th|Sunni|Deobandi writes:

We read in Gharab al Quran:

We read in Tafsir Haqqani:

hi'a view

The Shi'a view it as natural that there exists narrations of the use of Nikah Mut'ah during the time of Abu Bakr, since Umar had not yet come to power. Shi'a view that Umar made the prohibition in his third year of rule, in 16 AH (637 CE).

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