Hadith 3376

(3) His statement regarding one who declares his wife like his mother’s back and has intercourse before expiating: He said, “One expiation,” meaning if he has intercourse before performing the expiation, no additional expiation is required due to the intercourse. The only obligation is the initial expiation, meaning nothing else is required beyond the first expiation based on this hadith. This is the view of the four Imams. However, according to us [the Hanafis], he should also seek forgiveness from Allah, as transmitted in the Muwatta from the statement of Malik. Nuh Afandi quoted Allamah Qasim, who mentioned that Muhammad [ibn al-Hasan] reported it in The Source as a raised hadith. The intended meaning of seeking forgiveness is repentance from this sin, which is the prohibition of intercourse before expiation.