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The principle of preventing conception was accepted in those sayings of the Prophet (pbuh) which allowed some of his followers to practice 'azl or coitus interruptus. These *ahadith *embodied the earliest legal reasoning of Muslims on contraception and were essential instruments of argument in later Islamic thought on contraception. There is a sufficient number of ahadith on contraception. The most commonly quoted ones are the following. [5]](http://muslim-canada.org/family.htm#5)
- According to Jabir, “We used to practise 'azl in the Prophet’s (pbuh) lifetime while the Qur’an was being revealed.” There is another version of the same hadith, “We used to practise coitus interruptus during the Prophet’s (pbuh) lifetime. News of this reached him and he did not forbid us.”
- According to Jabir, “A man came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said, ‘I have a slave girl, and we need her as a servant and around the palmgroves. I have sex with her, but I am afraid of her becoming pregnant.’ The Prophet (pbuh) said, ‘Practice 'azl with her if you so wish, for she will receive what has been predestined for her.’”
- According to Abu Sa’id, “We rode out with the Prophet (pbuh) to raid Banu al-Mustaliq and captured some female prisoners . . . we desired women and abstinence became hard. [But] we wanted to practise 'azl; and asked the Prophet (pbuh) about it. He said, ‘You do not have to hesitate, for God has predestined what is to be created until the judgement day.’”
- According to Abu Sa’id, “The Jews say that coitus interruptus is minor infanticide, and the Prophet (pbuh) answered, ‘The Jews lie, for if God wanted to create something, no one can avert it (or divert Him).’”
- According to 'Umar Ibn Khattab, “The Prophet (pbuh) forbade the practice of 'azl with a free woman except with her permission.”
- According to Anas, “A man asked the Prophet (pbuh) about 'azl and the Prophet (pbuh) said, ‘Even if you spill a seed from which a child was meant to be born on a rock, God will bring forth from that rock a child.’”
- According to Judhamah bint Wahb, "I was there when the Prophet (pbuh) was with a group saying, “I was about to prohibit the ghila (intercourse with a woman in lactation) but I observed the Byzantines and the Persians, and saw them do it, and their children were not harmed.’ They asked him about coitus interruptus, and the Prophet (pbuh) replied, ‘It is a hidden infanticide . . .’”
These ahadith reflect two points: first that the Prophet (pbuh) knew about the practice and did not prohibit it (no. 1), and second, that the Prophet (pbuh) himself permitted the practice (no. 2 & 3).
The hadith from Judhamah (no.7) was an approximation to the homicide traditions of the Jewish and Christian traditions. This hadith provided support for Ibn Hazm’s minority view that 'azl was prohibited by the Prophet (pbuh). But medieval jurists used the hadith about the Jews (no. 4) to refute the argument for prohibition. They claimed that how the Prophet (pbuh) could have maintained that the Jews lied by calling 'azl akin to infanticide and then have maintained the same opinion himself. [6]](http://muslim-canada.org/family.htm#6)
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