He replied:

Praise be to Allah, Lord of all worlds. He has no right to house her wherever he wishes or take her wherever he wishes. Rather, he must house her in accommodation suitable for a woman of her standing, and he must not take her into the company of immoral people. Indeed, he has no right to associate with immoral people in their wrongdoing. Whenever he does so, he must receive two punishments: one for his own wrongdoing, according to what he has done, and another for failing to safeguard his wife and taking her to places of immorality. He must be punished in a manner that deters him and others like him from such conduct. And Allah knows best.

He—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—also said:

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As for anal intercourse with women, this is forbidden according to the majority of the early and later scholars, as established in the Quran and Sunnah. This is also the well-known position in Mālik’s school.

As for the other view, which permits it, some transmit it as a position reported from Mālik, while others deny this attribution. Nāfiʿ reported from Ibn ʿUmar that when he recited to him:

“Your wives are a place of cultivation for you,”

Ibn ʿUmar told him, “It was revealed concerning anal intercourse with women.” Some say that Nāfiʿ misreported Ibn ʿUmar’s words or misunderstood his meaning: what Ibn ʿUmar meant was that it was revealed concerning vaginal intercourse with women from behind. For the scholars agree that the verse was revealed concerning this, and it used to be that