{ ... or you have touched women, but you can not find any water, then dry wipe with clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands } Al-nisaa 43

His word { Or you have touched women } . Abu ‘Uthman said: Touching with the hand. … Ibn ‘Abbas said: This means sex. … Abdullah said: Touching other than sex. … ‘Ali said about { Or you have touched women } : this means sex. … Ibn Sirin said: I asked ‘Ubaida about the word of the Most High { Or you have touched women } , and he said: With one’s hand. And I grasped what he meant, and didn’t ask him. … Abu ‘Ubaida said: Anything other than sex. … Al-Hasan said: Touching [mulamasa] is sex. … Al-Sha’bi said: Touching is anything besides sex. … Sa’id ibn Jubair said: Some people among the Arabs and I disagreed about “touching”; Some of the leaders and I said that touching means anything besides sex, but the Arabs said that it is sex. So we went to Ibn ‘Abbas, and he said: The Arabs win; it is sex.