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Muta is Banned
To begin with, Muta is the act of temporary marriage,
this act was once allowed in Islam but was later forbidden by the prophet Muhammad. In
this article I will simply show the hadiths which show that Muta has been abrogated and cancelled by the prophet. Here are the hadiths:
Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 526:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
On the day of Khaiber, Allah's Apostle forbade the eating of garlic and the meat
of donkeys.
Volume 5, Book 59, Number 527:
Narrated 'Ali bin Abi Talib:
On the day of Khaibar, Allah's Apostle
forbade the Mut'a (i.e. temporary marriage) and the
eating of donkey-meat.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 86, Number 91:
Narrated Muhammad bin
'Ali:
'Ali was told that Ibn 'Abbas did not see any harm in the Mut'a marriage. 'Ali said,
"Allah's Apostle
forbade the Mut'a marriage on the Day of the battle of Khaibar
and
he forbade the eating of donkey's meat." Some people said, "If one, by a tricky
way,
marries temporarily, his
marriage is illegal." Others said, "The marriage is valid but its
condition is illegal."
Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3259:
Rabi' b. Sabra reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) prohibited the contracting of temporary
marriage.
Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3260:
Rabi' b. Sabra reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) forbade
on the Day of Victory to contract temporary marriage
with women. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Rabi' b. Sabra that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade to contracf
temporary
marriage with women at the time
of Victory, and that his father had
contracted the
marriage for two red cloaks.
'Ali b. Abi Talib reported that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade on the
Day of Khaibar temporary marriage (Muta') with
women and the eating of the flesh of
domestic asses.
Sabra
al-Juhanni reported on the authority of his father: Allah's
Messenger (may peace be
upon
him) prohibited the contracting of temporary marriage and said: Behold, it is
forbidden from this very day of
yours to the Day of Resurrection, and he who has given
something (as a dower) should
not take it back.
'Ali b. AbiTalib reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) prohibited on
the
Day of Khaibar the contracting of temporary marriage with
women and the eating of
the
flesh of domestic asses.
Malik
narrated this hadith on the authority of the same chain of
trans- witters that 'Ali b.
Abil
Talib said to a person: You are a person led astray; Allah's
Messenger (may peace
be
upon him) forbade us (to do Mut'a), as is stated In the hadith transmitted on the
authority of Yahya b. Malik.
Muhammad b. 'Ali narrated
on the authority of his father 'Ali that Allah's Apostle (may
peace
be upon him) on the Day of Khaibar prohibited for ever the
contracting of
temporary marriage and eating of
the flesh of the domestic asses.
'Ali (Allah be pleased
with him) heard that Ibn Abbas
(Allah be pleased with them) gave
some
relaxation in connection with the contracting of temporary marriage, whereupon he
said:
Don't be hasty (in your religious verdict), Ibn 'Abbas, for Allah's Messenger (may
peace
be upon him) on the Day of Khaibar prohibited for ever the
doing of it-And eating
of
the flesh of domestic asses.
'Ali (Allah be pleased
with him) said to Ibn 'Abbas
(Allah be pleased with them) that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the Day of Khaibar
forbade forever the
contracting of temporary marriage
and the eating of the flesh of domestic asses.
So it is clear from these
hadiths that the act of Muta was
forbidden by the
prophet Muhammad. So hence it
was abrogated and must not be practiced
anymore.
Some say the hadiths are contradictory, but actually they are not. The case is
very
simple, the prophet Muhammad forbade the act of Muta at the
battle of
Khaibar and also on the day of
victory, which was the conquest of Makkah.
So Muta
was specifically banned on these two occasions by the prophet.
These hadiths must be followed since the Quran
states:
"O ye who believe! Obey
God, and obey the Apostle, and those charged with
authority among you.
If ye differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to God and His
Apostle, if ye do believe in God and the Last Day: That is
best, and most suitable for final
determination. (The Noble
Quran,
"When there comes to them some matter touching
(Public) safety or fear, they divulge it.
If they had only referred it to the Apostle, or to
those charged with authority among
them, the proper investigators would have Tested it from them
(direct). Were it not for
the Grace and Mercy of God unto
you, all but a few of you would have fallen into the
clutches of Satan. (The
Noble Quran, 4:83)"
So the
Quran tells us to follow the apostle of Allah and those in
authority.
The
prophet Muhammad forbade Muta till the day of resurrection,
hence it
must not
never be practiced on the authority of the prophet Muhammad, and
the Quran tells us to obey him so hence if someone does not follow the
prophet
Muhammad then they do not follow the Quran!
The cancellation of muta was later reinstated by Umar:
Sahih Muslim Book 007, Number 2874:
Abd
Nadra reported: While I was in the company of Jibir, a person came and said: There
is
difference of opinion amomg Ibn Abbas and Ibn Zubair
about two Mut'as (benefits,
Tamattul in Hajj and temporary
marriage with women), whereupon jibir said: We have
been
doing this during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him), and
then
'Umar forbade us to do so, and we never resorted to them.
So it is clear and
simple, the prophet Muhammad forbade the act of Muta on
the
day of Khaibar, on the conquest of Makkah,
and Umar also later on
forbade it to Muslims (Isaiah 56:5: Muslim is the future believers' name. Sons and daughters titles will be "no more") who were
still practicing it. There is no contradiction
between any of that, Umar did not forbid it on his own authority, he was
simply
reinstating what the prophet Muhammad had ordered. As it can be
seen,
Muta was forbidden BEFORE Umar
made it forbidden, hence Umar
was
simply following the prophets orders, not his own.
So this brings this
article to a conclusion. Muta has been abrogated in Islam
by
the prophet Muhammad. I will soon be writing why Muta was
allowed in
the
first place.
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