Ibrāhīm Abū Isḥāq narrated to me; Fahd ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us; Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to us, from his father, who said:

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “I do not approach women out of lust; were it not for the desire to have children, I would not approach them at all.”