but none of them mentions that the prohibition remains in force until the Day of Resurrection, except this one and another route that I shall mention, Allah willing. It is because of this addition that I have included the hadith in this series; otherwise, the hadiths prohibiting temporary marriage are too well known to need citing here, even though a group of people deny them in pursuit of their desires. Discussion with them is of no use unless a scholarly methodology is first established by which the hadiths of both parties may be critically assessed—and that is very far from likely.

The route to which I alluded is narrated by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar (ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz), who said: Al-Rabīʿ ibn Sabrah related it to me in the following wording:

“His father was with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said: ‘O people, I had permitted you to enter into temporary marriages with women, but Allah has forbidden that until the Day of Resurrection. So whoever has any of them with him, let him release her, and do not take back anything of what you have given them.’”

It was narrated by Muslim (4/132), al-Dārimī (2/140), Ibn Mājah (1962), al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/14), Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Musannaf (7/44/1), Ibn al-Jārūd (699), al-Bayhaqī (7/203), and Aḥmad (3/404–405, 405–406).

There is some minor criticism of this ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, similar to that concerning Maʿqil; thus, each of the two reports strengthens the other. This is particularly so since I found a corroborating report in the hadith of Jābir, narrated by Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, who said:

“We set out, accompanied by the women with whom we had contracted temporary marriages. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘They are forbidden until the Day of Resurrection.’ So we bade them farewell then, and for that reason it was called Thaniyyat al-Wadāʿ (the Farewell Pass); before that, it had only been called Thaniyyat al-Rikāb (the Riders’ Pass).”