What is the ruling regarding a husband having sexual intercourse with his wife in her anus?
General Chapter
Al-Mughni
Book of the Wedding Feast
Primary text
There is no fixed legal punishment (*had*) upon the husband for having intercourse with his wife in her anus because he possesses a legal doubt (*shubah*) concerning this act. However, he must receive disciplinary punishment (*ta'zir*) for performing a forbidden act. The wife is required to perform the ritual bath (*ghusl*) because penetration of the vagina (*farj*) into the vagina has occurred, and this act carries the same ruling as intercourse in the front passage regarding invalidating acts of worship, establishing the dower (*mahr*), and necessitating the waiting period (*iddah*).
Supporting text
Intercourse with a non-mahram woman in the anus necessitates the punishment prescribed for sodomy (*luti*), and no dower is due because no permissible benefit (*manfa'ah*) has been conferred upon her for which compensation is due in the Sharia.