Marriage & Family Law

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "There are three people whose actions are not recorded, a sleeping person till he awakes, a child till he is a grown up, and an insane person till he is restored to reason or recovers his...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

He was asked about a man who divorces his wife, then takes her back without taking witnesses (on either). So he replied, "Get witnesses on her divorce, and on her return." .

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

When he divorced his wife the Prophet (ﷺ) said to 'Umar, "Command him to take her back." .

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) swore that he would stay away from his wives for a period. He made something unlawful (for himself) (i.e. something not in itself unlawful). So, he made the lawful unlawful, and he made atonement for breaking an...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

When a period of four months elapses, the one who swears to stay away from his wife must be made to return to her or divorce her, and the divorce is not valid till the husband himself pronounces it. .

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

I met thirteen or more of the Companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), all of them made the one who swears to stay away from his wife, return to her or divorce her (at the end of the period). .

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

The swearing to stay away from one's wife in al-Jahiliyyah era was for one or two years. Then, Allah appointed a period of four months for it. So, if it is less than four months, it is not swearing to...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

A man had vowed to make his wife like his mother (i.e. forbidden for him). Then he had intercourse with her, so he went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "I had intercourse with her before making the atonement." He...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

"Make atonement and do not repeat it."

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

When the month of Ramadan came, I feared lest I would have intercourse with my wife. So, I vowed az-Zihar (the she was like my mother). Then, one night something of her was uncovered to me and I had intercourse...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

So-and-so asked and said, "O Allah's Messenger, what do you think if one of us finds his wife committing adultery, how should he act? If he talks he would talk about a grievous affair, and if he keeps silent he...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to the two who were invoking curses regarding one another, "Your reckoning is in Allah's Hands for one of you is lying. You cannot remarry her." He (the man) said: "O Allah's Messenger, what about my...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Observe her, and if she gives birth to a child which is white complexioned with dark hair, her husband would be its father. But if she gives birth to a child with eyes looking as if...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ordered a man to put his hand on his mouth when he came to the fifth pronouncement and said, "It would be the deciding one." .

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

When they finished invoking curses regarding one another the man said, "I shall have lied against her, O Allah's Messenger, if I keep her (as a wife)." He, then, pronounced her divorce three times, even before Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) commanded...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "My wife rejects no hand of a man who wished to touch her." He said, "Banish her." He replied, "I am afraid my soul may desire her." He said, "Then enjoy...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

He said, "Divorce her." He replied "I can not endure the desire for her." He said, "Then keep her."

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

He heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) say, when the Verse (24:6) about invoking curses came down, "Any woman who brings into a family one who does belong to it, is not an observer of Allah's (religion), and Allah will not admit...

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

If anyone acknowledges that he is the father of his child just for the blinking of an eye, he has no right to disown it." .

Bulugh al-Maram

Marriage

A man said, "O Allah's Messenger, my wife has given birth to a black son." He asked, "Have you any camels?" He replied, "Yes." He asked, "What is their color?" He replied, "They are red." He asked, "Is there a...