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Zihaar (Likening one's wife to an unmarrriagble woman)

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Ibn ‘Abbās (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If [a man] forbids his wife, this is nothing. He further quoted: {There is in the Messenger of Allah a good example to you} [Sūrat al-Ahzāb: 21]
A man went to the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) as he made Zhihār against his wife yet had intercourse with her
The Hadīth of Salamah ibn Sakhr (may Allah be pleased with him) on Zhihār

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