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What is the ruling regarding a man who marries his deceased wife's sister's daughter?

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A man may marry his wife's niece after the wife's death because the prohibition is restricted to simultaneously marrying a woman and her paternal or maternal aunt. If this impediment is removed by the wife's death, then the marriage is permissible.

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