Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Saeed bin Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) and Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) say that there is no fixed time in Zihar, and Ila does not apply to it, no matter how long it may last.

It is also narrated similarly from Ibrahim, may Allah have mercy on him.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that if a person had intercourse with his wife and did not specify a time, then his wife will not be separated from him even if he does not have intercourse with her, as long as he is waiting for the expiation.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that there is no fixed time in regard to zihar.

Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said that there is no fixed time for Zihar.

Hazrat Tawus (may Allah have mercy on him) says that there is no specific time for Zihar.

Hazrat Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) says that if a man says to his wife, "If I come near you within a year, then you are to me like the back of my mother," then this will not be included in Ila' or Zihar.

Hazrat Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) and Hazrat Hammad (may Allah have mercy on him) say that if a person says about his wife that for four months she is like his mother’s back to him, and four months pass, then this is Ilaa. And if he says that she is like his mother’s back to him and then leaves her for a year, then this is not Ilaa.

Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says that Ila does not enter into Zihar, and Zihar does not enter into Ila.