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Authentic hadithUpdated on 24 September 2026 at 12:34 AM
📖 1 min readعن جُذَامَةَ بنت وهب، أخت عكاشة، قالت: حَضَرْتُ رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ، في أناس وهو يقول: «لقد هَمَمْتُ أن أنهى عن الْغِيلَةِ، فَنَظَرْتُ في الروم وفارس، فإذا هم يُغِيلُونَ أولادهم، فلا يضر أولادهم ذلك شيئا»، ثم سألوه عن الْعَزْلِ؟ فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : «ذلك الْوَأْدُ الخفي»، زاد عبيد الله في حديثه: عن المقرئ، وهي: {وَإِذَا الْمَوْءُودَةُ سُئِلَتْ}.
This Hadīth shows that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to forbid having intimate relations with one's wife during the suckling period, for it was common among the Arabs that doing so would cause harm to the baby. However, he did not forbid it once he came to know for sure that some peoples, like the Persians and the Romans, reported that no harm was caused to their children on account of doing this. The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about ejaculating outside the vagina. He likened this to a pre-Islamic practice, when the Arabs used to bury their girls alive. The difference between both practices is that the infanticide was done openly, yet coitus interruptus is done privately.
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