Whenever Ibn Umar recited the Quran, he would not speak. The narrator said, One day I recited this verse, "Your wives are a tilth for you, so come to your tilth as you wish" [Baqarah 2:223].Ibn Umar asked, "Do you know about whom this verse was revealed?"I replied, "No."He said, "It was revealed concerning approaching women in their backsides."
كان ابن عمر إذا قرأ القرآن لم يتكلم قال: فقرأت ذات يوم هذه الآية: {نساؤكم حرث لكم فأتوا حرثكم أنى شئتم} فقال: أتدري فيمن نزلت هذه الآية؟ قلت: لا، قال: نزلت في إتيان النساء في أدبارهن.
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Ibn Jareer narrated it (3/751) from Yaqub, who said, Ibn Ulaya narrated to us, who said, Ibn Awn informed us, from Nafi, and he related it.Bukhari also narrated it in the Tafsir (4526) from Ishaq, Nadr bin Shumayl informed us, Ibn Awn informed us, from Nafi, who said, "Whenever Ibn Umar recited the Quran he would not speak until he finished it. One day I engaged him in conversation, so he recited Surah Baqarah until he reached a certain place, and he said, 'Do you know what it was revealed about?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'It was revealed about such and such,' and then he continued." End of quote.Bukhari also narrated it through another route from Ayub, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, regarding "So go to your tilth as you wish" [Baqarah 2:223], he said, "He comes to her in..." End of quote.He also narrated it through another route from Ubaydullah, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar. End of quote.This is how Bukhari transmitted the hadith of Ibn Umar through three routes, leaving the meaning of the verse ambiguous. Either he intended to verify Ibn Umar's statement and so left the blank for that reason, and when he could not verify it he left the blank remaining as it was, or he simply forgot to fill it in.Otherwise, the sahih narration through the route of Ibn Awn, as mentioned by Ibn Jareer, is explicit in referring to coming to women in their rears. So Bukhari's leaving the blank confirms that he did not hold this to be permissible, just as he did not accept attributing it to Ibn Umar, because of the hadiths that came prohibiting it.For this reason Humaydi mentioned in Al-Jamu Bayna Sahihayn (1440), "He comes to her in it," meaning the vagina. He added this from his own understanding, taking it to be Bukhari's position. With this, Bukhari's view becomes like that of the majority of the scholars, Abu Hanifa, Shafii in his later position, Ahmad, and others, with the exception of Malik. For Maen said, "I heard Malik say, 'I do not know of it being forbidden,'" as Nasai mentioned in Al-Kubra (8/191).As for Ibn Umar, a different position has been reported from him than this.