What is The Ruling on Enjoying the Breasts of One’s Wife?

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O honorable Sheikh one night when I was having intercourse with my wife, Shaytaan [the devil] overpowered me and I began to fondle my wife in a place other than the designated place [i.e., the vagina]; which is the breasts. I ejaculated in that place, and my conscience is not at ease, rather it is bothering me. I hope you can give me a Fatwa regarding this, and what is the expiation for this? May Allah reward you, we ask Allah success for us and you.

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Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen
All praise be to Allah. That which is proper for a person, is to use everything in its proper place. And Allah the Exalted has surely said: “Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth (have sexual relations with your wives in any manner as long as it is in the vagina and not in the anus), when or how you will.” [Al-Baqarah 2:223]. And the tilth is the place of the seed (propagation), and the place of the seed for a woman is the vagina. Because it is what reaches the place of the seed, which is the womb. This is where a man should come to his wife in. But despite that, if he came to her in another place, other than the anus, then that which is apparent from His saying the Exalted: “And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts), exceptfrom their wives or that their right hands possess, for then, they are free from blame.” [Al-Mu’minun 23:5-6]… The apparent meaning of this generality shows that it is permissible, and that it is permissible for him to enjoy his wife wherever he pleases, except for the anus. It is not permissible for a man to have intercourse with his wife in it. Follow up Question: So, there is nothing on him? Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen: This is what is apparent from His saying the Exalted: “Except from their wives.”

Additional references

The Series of Fatwas of Noor ‘Ala Al-Darb for his eminence the scholar Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Ibn Uthaymeen Tape: 1 Fatwa: 5