Why are the husband's paternal uncles not considered mahārim (unmarriageable relatives), despite Ismāʿīl and Isḥāq being described as "fathers" in His saying, the Most High: ﴿They said: "We worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham, Ismāʿīl, and Isḥāq - one God; and to Him we submit"﴾, even though one of them is an uncle to the other?
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The paternal uncle is not a mahram to his nephew's wife, and this ruling is a consensus among scholars. The uncle has been referred to as a "father" in some texts out of predominance or for respect and veneration, not because he takes the place of a father in legal rulings such as marriage and inheritance.
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