What is the ruling on a man having sexual intercourse with his wife between her thighs without sodomy, what is it called in Islamic law, and does it necessitate a worldly punishment?

What has been mentioned is considered a type of sodomy (liwaṭ), and it is a grave obscenity that does not reach the degree of sodomy necessitating the prescribed punishment (ḥadd). The door of repentance is open to all servants as long as the soul has not reached the throat, or the sun has not risen from its setting place, for Allah Almighty says: "And He it is Who accepts repentance from His servants and pardons sins." Among what helps in repentance is realizing the danger of this matter, for by it, nations were destroyed, and it is what the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, feared most for his Ummah.