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Jews used to say: "If one has sexual intercourse with his wife from the back, then she will deliver a
squint-eyed child." So this Verse was revealed:--
"Your wives are a tilth unto you; so go to your tilth when or how you will." (2.223)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 51
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Whenever Ibn `Umar recited the Quran, he would not speak to anyone till he had finished his
recitation. Once I held the Quran and he recited Surat-al-Baqara from his memory and then stopped at
a certain Verse and said, "Do you know in what connection this Verse was revealed? " I replied, "No."
He said, "It was revealed in such-and-such connection." Ibn `Umar then resumed his recitation. Nafi`
added regarding the Verse:--"So go to your tilth when or how you will" Ibn `Umar said, "It means one
should approach his wife in .."
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The sister of Ma'qal bin Yasar was divorced by her husband who left her till she had fulfilled her term
of 'Iddat (i.e. the period which should elapse before she can Remarry) and then he wanted to remarry
her but Maqal refused, so this Verse was revealed:--
"Do not prevent them from marrying their (former) husbands." (2.232)