Rabi’ bin Sabrah al-Juhani narrates from his father: We set out to visit the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When we had performed ‘Umrah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Contract temporary marriage (mut‘ah) with women. The narrator says: In those days, in our view, mut‘ah was equivalent to marriage. We offered it to women, proposing that we marry them for a specified period. The narrator says: We mentioned this to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: Do so. My cousin and I went out; I had a cloak and he had a cloak, and his cloak was better than mine, but I was younger than him. We came to a woman and proposed marriage to her. She liked my youth and liked my cousin’s cloak. She said: A cloak is a cloak. So I married that woman. There was an agreement between me and her to stay together for ten days. I stayed with her that night. The next day, I went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who was standing between the Black Stone and the Ka‘bah, addressing the people. He (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying:“O people! I had permitted you to contract temporary marriage with women. Beware! Indeed, Allah has forbidden it until the Day of Resurrection. So whoever has such an agreement should leave those women, and do not take back anything you have given them.”