Those who said a Jewish or Christian wife gives a Muslim the status of muhsan

Qatadah reports that it is narrated from Jabir bin Zayd and Sa'id bin al-Musayyib, concerning a Jewish or Christian woman who is married to a Muslim, and that man then commits adultery, that they both said: He is to be stoned.

Yunus reports that al-Hasan al-Basri used to say: A Jewish or Christian woman makes a Muslim muhsan (married and chaste).

Ibn Jurayj reports that it is narrated from Ata, concerning a man who marries a woman of the People of the Book, that he said: She makes him chaste and muhsan.

Salim said: I asked Sa'id bin Jubayr about a man who married a Jewish woman, a Christian woman, or a slave woman: does he become muhsan (married and chaste) through them? He said: Yes, whatever the case may be.