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Who has the right to custody of a child, male or female, after divorce, and is the custodial mother entitled to prevent the father from visiting his daughter weekly when the child's grandfather welcomes the father's visit?

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Scholars have not differed that custody, in the event of separation between spouses, belongs to the mother, based on the hadith: "You have more right to him as long as you do not marry."

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