Companions spoke of the practice of ʿazl (coitus interruptus) as something they did during the Prophetic era while the Qur’an was being revealed. The reasoning attributed to Jābir and Abū Saʿīd is that, had an ongoing practice been forbidden, correction during the period of revelation would have been possible.
The argument depends on the occurrence of the practice during revelation, not on a literal quotation of the Prophet’s command. Accurate interpretation therefore attends to the original reporting formula, its circumstances, and related narrations.
This case shows how temporal circumstances and inference from tacit approval can function within the category of constructive elevation.