Re: Mut'ah in Sunnism
masterofall240 - May be Ma Mooli and zer01 are busy or are checking up the references, could you do the honours and try to explain the following:
Shia references on invalidity of Mut'ah
Al-Tusi mentioned in his book "Al-Tahzib" (Vol. 2, P. 186) as well as Al-Hurr Al-Amili in "Wasa'el Al-Shia" (Vol. 14, P. 441):
"By Zayd ibn Ali by his fathers by Ali (as) who said: "The messenger of Allah (saws)** prohibited** the meat of domesticated donkeys and Nikah' Al-Mutah'""
Al-Hurr Al-Amili commented on this narration saying: "The Sheikh (i.e. Al-Tusi) considered this to be Taqiyyah because the permission to practice Mutah is a necessity of the Imaami mazhab"
In Bihaar Al-Anwar, Vol. 100, P. 318,** Ja'far Al-Sadiq** says about Mutah in a narration by Hisham bin Al-Hakam: "Only the prostitutes do it"
On the same page, Ja'far Al-Sadiq says in a narration by Abdallah bin Sinan: "I asked Abu Abdullah (as) about Mutah. He said: "Don't defile yourself with it""
In the Furuu' of Al-Kafi (Vol. 2, P. 48), we read the following clear-cut prohibition of Mutah by Ja'far al-Sadiq: "Mutah has been prohibited for you"