Is the word "al-nikah" in the Holy Quran always used to mean the marriage contract, or does it come to mean both the contract and sexual intercourse, taking into consideration what Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned, that if it is a command, it refers to both the contract and sexual intercourse, and if it is a prohibition, it refers to one of them?
The correct view is that the term "" (marriage) as it appears in Islamic law refers to the marriage contract, and this is its most common usage in the Quran, , and among the Companions.
Ibn Taymiyyah said: "There is no instance of the word 'nikah' in the Quran except that it necessarily refers to the contract, even if intercourse is also included therein. However, for it to refer solely to intercourse: this is never found in the Book of Allah."
Ibn al-Qayyim said: "The term 'nikah' has not appeared in the Quran except that what is intended by it is both the contract and intercourse, encompassing them both. As for it being exclusively for intercourse alone, that is not found in the Quran, not even in a single place."
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