Abu Sirma said to Abu Sa'id al Khadri (RA) : O Abu Sa'id, did you hear Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) mentioning al-'azl? He said: Yes, and added: We went out with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the expedition to the Bi'l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing 'azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid-conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah's Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) , and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born.
A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Habban with the same chain of transmitters (but with this alteration) that he said: "Allah has ordained whom he has to create until the Day of Judgment."
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) reported: We took women captives, and we wanted to do 'azl with them. We then asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about it, and he said to us: Verily you do it, verily you do it, verily you do it, but the soul which has to be born until the Day of Judgment must be born.
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) (was asked if he had heard it himself), to which he said: Yes. (I heard) Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying: There is no harm if you do not practise it, for it (the birth of the child) is something ordained (by Allah).
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) was asked about 'azl, whereupon he said: There is no harm if you do not do that, for it (the birth of the child) is something ordained. Muhammad (one of the narrators) said: (The words) La 'alaykum (there is no harm) implies its Prohibition.
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) reported that mention was made of 'azl in the presence of Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) whereupon he said: Why do you practise it? They said: There is a man whose wife has to suckle the child, and if that person has a sexual intercourse with her (she may conceive) which he does not like, and there is another person who has a slave-girl and he has a sexual intercourse with her, but he does not like her to have conception so that she may not become Umm Walad, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: There is no harm if you do not do that, for that (the birth of the child) is something pre-ordained. Ibn 'Aun said: I made a mention of this hadith to Hasan, and he said: By Allah, (it seems) as if there is upbraiding in it (for 'azl).
Ibn 'Aun reported: I reported to Muhammad on the authority of Ibrahim the hadith reported by 'Abdul Rahmann bin Bishr (the hadith concerning 'azl), where-upon he said: That (hadith) Abdul Rahman bin Bishr had narrated to me (also).
Ma'bad bin Sirin said to Abu Sa'id (RA) : Did you hear Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) making a mention of something in regard to al-'azl? Thereupon he said: Yes. The rest (of the hadith is the same)
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) reported: Mention was made about al-'azl in the presence of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) , whereupon he said: Why any one of you practises it? (He did not say: One of you should not do it), for there is no created soul, whose creator is not Allah.
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was asked about 'azl, whereupon he said: The child does not come from all the liquid (semen) and when Allah intends to create anything nothing can prevent it (from coming into existence).
Jabir (RA) reported that a man came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said: I have a slave-girl who is our servant and she carries water for us and I have intercourse with her, but I do not want her to conceive. He said: Practise 'azl, if you so like, but what is decreed for her will come to her. The person stayed back (for some time) and then came and said: The girl has become pregnant, whereupon he said: I told you what was decreed for her would come to her.
Jabir bin 'Abdullah (RA) reported that a person asked Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) saying: I have a slave-girl and I practise 'azl with her, whereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: This cannot prevent that which Allah has decreed. The person then came (after some time) and said: Messenger of Allah, the slave-girl about whom I talked to you has conceived, whereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: I am the servant of Allah and His Messenger.
Jabir (RA) reported: We used to practise 'azl during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) . This (the news of this practise) reached Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) , and he did not forbid us.