Mawla said to him...

Mawla said to him, ‘Such is done during a harsh circumstance and when there is a shortage of women,’ or something like that, whereupon Ibn Abbās said, ‘Yes.’”[^12] Both al-Tabarāni and al-Tha’labi, each in his own tafsīr book, rely on the authority of Ali (‘a) saying, “Had ‘Umar not banned the mut’a , nobody would have committed adultery except a wretch,”[^13] that is, only few would have committed it.

Despite the clarity of all these proofs that are as clear as the midday sun regarding the continuity of the mut’a marriage being halāl , most Sunnis nowadays see the opposite, claiming that the verse relevant to this type of marriage was abrogated. They also differed regarding what [or who ] abrogated it. Some of them say it was abrogated by a Qur’ānic verse, while others say that the revocation came from narratives in the Sunnah.

We rebut both views with the above-cited traditions the authenticity of which is already fixed and which prove that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣ) died without prohibiting the mut’a . As regarding those who say that it was abrogated by this verse: “... who guard their private parts, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond” (Qur’ān,