Detestability of Conjugal Relation in Certain Times

“I once asked abu Ja’far (a.s.), about going to bed with one’s wife; if it is detestable anytime even though it is lawful.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, it is detestable between dawn and sunrise, from sunset to the disappearance of brightness in the west, on the day of sun eclipse, in the night of moon eclipse, in the day and night of black, red, and yellow winds and in the day and night of an earthquake. The Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, passed the night in which a moon eclipse took place with a certain one of his wives and he did not do in that night what he did in other nights until the morning and she asked, “Were you disappointed last night?” He (the Messenger of Allah) replied, “No, but this phenomenon took place last night and I did not like to seek pleasure or amuse myself when Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, has reproached certain people in His book, ‘When they see darkness in the sky falling they say, “It is a thick piece of cloud.” Leave them alone until they face their day in which they will be thunderstruck.’ (52:44)’” Abu Ja‘far, Alayhi al-Salam, then said, ‘By Allah, whoever after reading this Hadith goes to bed with his wife in such times that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has prohibited and he then is granted a child, will find with the child what he does not like.’”

“Abu al-Hassan, Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘One who goes to bed with his wife in the night of the end of a lunar month when the moon is not visible at all may not remain safe from (misfortune of) premature birth of the child.’”

Of the issues that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, taught Ali, Alayhi al-Salam, as advice were the following: O Ali, you must not go to bed with your wife in the first night of a lunar month, in the night of the middle of the month, and in the last night of the month, because it is feared for the child of insanity (being possessed by Jinn).’ Ali, Alayhi al-Salam, asked, ‘Why is it, O Messenger of Allah?’ He (the Messenger of Allah) replied, ‘It is because Jinn frequent overwhelming their women in the first night of a lunar month, in the night of the middle of the month and in the last night of the month. Have you not seen that one possessed by Jinn becomes epileptic in beginning of the month, in the end and in the middle of the night?”’

“Abu ‘Abd Allah, Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘It is detestable for a man to go to bed with his wife in the night of his arrival from a journey until the morning.’”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has said, ‘I dislike for my followers that one of them goes to bed with his wife in the middle of the month or when it is new moon because the rebels of satans and Jinn overwhelm children of Adam; they become possessed by Jinn are and insane. You can see that those possessed become epileptic in the middle and in the beginning of the month’”