To whom does the maintenance of a woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried fall?
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A woman whose husband has died, and she has not remarried and possesses no wealth, her maintenance is incumbent upon those who were responsible for her maintenance before her marriage, from among her family, according to their order of closeness.
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