Is it permissible, Islamically, to marry a married woman who is having problems with her husband and wishes to leave him and marry me, knowing that my wife may not approve of this marriage?
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You must cut off all contact with that woman, and do not promise to marry her, for that would corrupt her relationship with her husband; based on the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "He is not of us who incites a woman against her husband." Scholars have differed on the validity of the marriage of one who incites a woman against her husband to the woman he incited. The Malikis and some Hanbalis are of the opinion that such a marriage is invalid as a punishment for him.
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