The Institutes of Akbar 132.1.8
The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 132.1.8
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132.1.8
After much discussion on this point, the ’Ulamás, having collected every Tradition on the subject, decreed, first, that, by Mut’ah [not by nikáh] a man might marry any number of wives he pleased; and secondly, that Mut’ah marriages were allowed by Imám Malik. The Shi’ahs, as was well known, loved children born in Mut’ah wedlock more than those born by nikáh wives, contrary to the Sunnis and the Ahl i Jamá’at.