Hadith No: 7
Ibn Hazm - Al-Muhalla bil-Athar - Issues of Ta'zir and What Lacks a Fixed Punishment - A Matter Regarding a Woman Approaching Another Woman
Volume: (12) - Page Number: (404)
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Abu Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "If she were to present her private part to someone without actually penetrating, and he were to ejaculate, this would be disliked, but there would be no sin in it."- ....
Likewise, masturbation for men is the same; touching one's own member with the left hand is permissible, and a woman touching her private part is similarly permissible by the consensus of the entire ummah. Since it is permissible, there is no addition to the permissible except deliberately trying to cause ejaculation, and that is not forbidden at all, for Allah, the Almighty, said: {And He has already detailed for you what He has forbidden upon you} (Al-An'am 6:119), and this is not something whose prohibition has been detailed for us, so it is lawful. This is affirmed by His statement: {He created for you what is in the earth, all of it} (Al-Baqarah 2:29), except that we dislike it because it is not one of the noble traits or virtues.
- .... People have discussed this, and some found it disliked while others permitted it. As narrated to us by Hamam, who said: Ibn Mufarrij narrated to us, from Ibn al-A'arabi, from al-Dabiri, from Abd al-Razzaq,
from Sufyan al-Thawri, from Abdullah ibn Uthman, from Mujahid, who said: "Ibn Umar was asked about masturbation, and he replied, 'That is a man comforting himself.'"- .... And with that, from Sufyan al-Thawri, from al-A'mash, from Abu Razin, from Abu Yahya,
from Ibn Abbas: that a man said to him, 'I play with my member until I ejaculate.' He replied, 'Is not marriage to a slave woman better than that? And it is better than fornication.'"- .... And some permitted it, as we have narrated with the aforementioned chain to Abd al-Razzaq, who said: Ibn Jurayj told me, "Ibrahim ibn Abi Bakr informed me of a man,"
from Ibn Abbas, who said: "It is nothing more than one of you rubbing his member until the fluid is released."- .... Muhammad ibn Said ibn Nabat told us, Ahmad ibn Aun Allah said, Qasim ibn Asbagh said, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Khashani said, Muhammad ibn Bishar Bandari said, Muhammad ibn Ja'far Gundir said,
Shu'bah, from Qatadah, from a man, from Ibn Umar, that he said, 'It is merely a nerve that you can stimulate.'- .... And with that, from Qatadah,
from al-Ala ibn Ziyad, from his father: that they used to do this in battles, meaning masturbation, where a man would play with his member and stimulate it until he ejaculated.- ....
Qatadah said: And al-Hasan said about a man masturbating, playing with his member until he ejaculates, "They used to do this in battles."- ....
And Jabir ibn Zayd Abu al-Shakhtar said, "It is your fluid, so spill it," meaning masturbation.- ....
And Mujahid said, "Those before us used to instruct their young men to masturbate as a way to maintain chastity."- .... Abd al-Razzaq mentioned, and Ma'mar narrated it from Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani or another, from Mujahid,
from al-Hasan, that he did not see any harm in masturbation.- ....
And from Amr ibn Dinar: "I do not see any harm in masturbation."