Is the husband's father a mahram to his son's wife through his mother?
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Your maternal brother's wife is a stranger to you. If your brother divorces her, it is permissible for your father to marry her, because she is neither his son's wife nor his wife's daughter; rather, she is the wife of his wife's son.
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