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darimi:1172Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yūnus > Mālik > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī

[Machine] "The Jews said to the Muslims: Whoever goes to his wife while she is turned away, his child will be illegitimate. So Allah, the Most High, revealed: 'Your wives are a place of cultivation for you, so come to your cultivation however you wish.' (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:223)"  

الدارمي:١١٧٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ

أَنَّ الْيَهُودَ قَالُوا لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ مَنْ أَتَى امْرَأَتَهُ وَهِيَ مُدْبِرَةٌ جَاءَ وَلَدُهُ أَحْوَلَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ} [البقرة 223]  


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Collected by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Bayhaqī
muslim:1435bMuḥammad b. Rumḥ > al-Layth > Ibn al-Hād > Abū Ḥāzim > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh > Yahūd Kānat

" Your wives are your ti'Ith; go then unto your tilth, as you may desire."  

مسلم:١٤٣٥bوَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍ أَخْبَرَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنِ ابْنِ الْهَادِ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

أَنَّ يَهُودَ كَانَتْ تَقُولُ إِذَا أُتِيَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ مِنْ دُبُرِهَا فِي قُبُلِهَا ثُمَّ حَمَلَتْ كَانَ وَلَدُهَا أَحْوَلَ قَالَ فَأُنْزِلَتْ { نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ}  

abudawud:2163Ibn Bashhār > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir

Muhammad bin Al Munkadir said I heard Jabir say The Jews used to say “When a man has intercourse with his wife through the vagina, but being on her back the child will have a squint, so the verse came down. Your wives are a tilth to you, so come to your tilth however you will.”  

أبو داود:٢١٦٣حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْيَهُودَ يَقُولُونَ إِذَا جَامَعَ الرَّجُلُ أَهْلَهُ فِي فَرْجِهَا مِنْ وَرَائِهَا كَانَ وَلَدُهُ أَحْوَلَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى { نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ }  

tirmidhi:2978Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Thābit > Anas > Bimaʿnāh > Ibn Abū ʿUmar > Sufyān > Ibn al-Munkadir > Jābir > Kānat al-Yahūd

"The Jews would say: "Whoever goes into his wife's vagina from behind her, then his children will be cross-eyed.' So Allah revealed: Your wives are a tilth for your, so go to your tilth when or how you will (2:223)."  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:٢٩٧٨حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ نَحْوَهُ بِمَعْنَاهُ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ

سَمِعَ جَابِرًا يَقُولُ كَانَتِ الْيَهُودُ تَقُولُ مَنْ أَتَى امْرَأَتَهُ فِي قُبُلِهَا مِنْ دُبُرِهَا كَانَ الْوَلَدُ أَحْوَلَ فَنَزَلَتْ (نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ )  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ibnmajah:1925Sahl b. Abū Sahl And Jamīl b. al-Ḥasan > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh > Kānat Yahūd

that he heard Jabir bin 'Abdullah say: “The Jews used to say that if a man has intercourse with a woman in her vagina from the back, the child would have a squint. Then Allah, Glorious is He, revealed: 'Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth, when or how you will.' ”  

ابن ماجة:١٩٢٥حَدَّثَنَا سَهْلُ بْنُ أَبِي سَهْلٍ وَجَمِيلُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ كَانَتْ يَهُودُ تَقُولُ مَنْ أَتَى امْرَأَةً فِي قُبُلِهَا مِنْ دُبُرِهَا كَانَ الْوَلَدُ أَحْوَلَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ}  

ahmad:26643ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > Ibn Khuthaym > Ibn Sābiṭ > Ḥafṣah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Um Salamah > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] When a man comes to his wife desiring intercourse, Umm Salamah asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about this, and he said, "Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth however you like." (Qur'an 2:223)  

أحمد:٢٦٦٤٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ ابْنِ خُثَيْمٍ عَنْ ابْنِ سَابِطٍ عَنْ حَفْصَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ [قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ] قَالَ أَبِي وَفِي مَوْضِعٍ آخَرَ مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ ابْنِ خُثَيْمٍ عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ شَيْبَةَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ أَنَّ امْرَأَةً سَأَلَتْهَا

عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَأْتِي امْرَأَتَهُ مُجَبِّيَةً فَسَأَلَتْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ} [البقرة 223] صِمَامًا وَاحِدًا  

darimi:2260Khālid b. Makhlad > Mālik > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "Indeed, the Jews said to the Muslims: Whoever approaches his wife from behind, his child will be illegitimate. So Allah, the Exalted, revealed: "Your women are a plowed field for you, so come to your field however you wish." [Al-Baqarah 223].  

الدارمي:٢٢٦٠حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

أَنَّ الْيَهُودَ قَالُوا لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ مَنْ أَتَى امْرَأَتَهُ وَهِيَ مُدْبِرَةٌ جَاءَ وَلَدُهُ أَحْوَلَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ} [البقرة 223]  

bayhaqi:14102Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. Shādhān > Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Sufyān > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh > Kānat al-Yahūd

When a man has intercourse with his wife through the vagina but being on her back. the child will have squint, so the verse came down:" Your wives are your tilth; go then unto your tilth as you may desire" (ii. 223) (Using translation from Muslim 1435a)   

البيهقي:١٤١٠٢أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ شَاذَانَ ثنا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ قَالَ

كَانَتِ الْيَهُودُ تَقُولُ مَنْ أَتَى امْرَأَتَهُ فِي قُبُلِهَا مِنْ دُبُرِهَا كَانَ الْوَلَدُ أَحْوَلَ فَنَزَلَتْ {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ} [البقرة 223]  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ قُتَيْبَةَ وَغَيْرِهِ
bayhaqi:14103[Chain 1] Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār > Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī And Ziyād b. al-Khalīl And ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar > Musaddad > Abū ʿAwānah [Chain 2] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Aḥmad b. Sahl al-Bukhārī > Qays b. Unayf > Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Abū ʿAwānah > Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] The Jews only consider it a sexual act when a man approaches his wife from behind and Allah revealed the verse, "{Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish.}" [Al-Baqarah 2:223] whether it is from the front or from behind, and they only engage in it in the missionary position.  

البيهقي:١٤١٠٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ الْقَاضِي وَزِيَادُ بْنُ الْخَلِيلِ وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ قَالُوا ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ أنبأ أَبُو عَوَانَةَ ح وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أَخْبَرَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ الْبُخَارِيُّ ثنا قَيْسُ بْنُ أُنَيْفٍ ثنا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ثنا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ قَالَ قَالَتِ

الْيَهُودُ إِنَّمَا يَكُونُ الْحَوَلُ إِذَا أَتَى الرَّجُلُ امْرَأَتَهُ مِنْ خَلْفِهَا فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ ﷻ {نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ} [البقرة 223] مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهَا وَمِنْ خَلْفِهَا وَلَا يَأْتِيهَا إِلَّا فِي الْمَأْتَى  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ قُتَيْبَةَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ