What are the cases in which a husband, after divorce, may retrieve the gold jewelry and ornaments he bought for his wife before consummating the marriage, knowing that he did consummate the marriage and the marital life lasted less than one year?
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What the husband buys for his wife in terms of gold and jewelry falls into three categories: either it is a mahr (dowry), or a gifted possession, or a loan.
- If it is a mahr: then the rulings of mahr apply to it. - If it is a gifted possession: then it is the wife's right, and the husband has no right to it unless the separation is through khulʿ (divorce at the wife's instance), and the khulʿ is in exchange for the woman returning what the husband gifted to her. - If it is a loan: then it is the husband's right, both before and after divorce.
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