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Does intermarriage with the Prophet's Household (Ahl al-Bayt) increase one's honor, and is a non-noble woman who marries a noble man from the Prophet's Household considered to have acquired their jurisprudential rulings and become noble, or does she remain an ordinary individual? And does she remain so after divorce, taking into consideration the Hadith: "Every lineage and kinship will be severed on the Day of Resurrection except my lineage and kinship"?

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There is no doubt that marrying into the Household of the Prophet (Ahl al-Bayt) is an honor for a Muslim. However, intermarriage does not make the in-law a part of the Household in the legal sense that entails specific rulings pertaining to them, such as the prohibition of receiving charity (sadaqah) or their share of the one-fifth (khums). This is further affirmed by the fact that the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, though they are from his Household, are not included among those for whom sadaqah is forbidden. Similarly, a divorced woman is not considered part of the Household legally, because she was not part of it merely by marriage in the first place.

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