Is a marriage, performed by a religious volunteer (mutawwi'), an imam of a mosque, and a marriage officiant (ma'dhun), with the presence of two witnesses and a dowry, and in which the husband assumed guardianship due to the absence of the wife's guardian, valid according to the school of Abu Hanifa, despite not being documented?
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The of Abu Hanifa does not stipulate the guardian (wali) as a condition for the validity of marriage. Thus, the marriage of a free, legally competent woman without a guardian is valid according to him. As for documentation, it is not a condition for the validity of the contract, but it should not be abandoned in order to safeguard rights.
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