Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: A man came to the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: I caught hold of a woman in a garden and did everything with her except intercourse. Now do with me as you wish. (The narrator states) The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say anything to him. You called him and recited before him:“Establish prayer at the two ends of the day and at some parts of the night. Indeed, good deeds erase bad deeds.”(Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) The Arabs sometimes mention a thing whose name consists of several parts and branches. Then the Arabs mention one of those parts by the name of the whole thing. All types of prohibited acts are forbidden for the servants. And the word“disobedience”applies to all of them. Among them is adultery, which makes the prescribed punishment obligatory upon its perpetrator. There are some causes that lead to it, so here the application of one cause is made to the whole act, and that cause is kissing and touching, not intercourse.