Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
Is the marriage contract considered valid if one of the witnesses is the guardian's son and is 15 years old? And is the testimony of the guardian's son permissible in a marriage?
Does the husband's saying "If you want it, take it," in response to his wife's request for divorce, count as a divorce, knowing that he had previously divorced her twice?
Is a single divorce pronounced when a man, joking, says to his wife: "You are divorc-ed" -imitating the Egyptian dialect- given that he has already consummated the marriage and caressed her without penetration?
What should a divorced woman do about her regretful ex-husband who wishes to take her back, knowing that she refuses and is focusing on her university studies and learning the English language?
Is it obligatory to divorce a wife if it is discovered on the wedding day that she is not a virgin?
What is the religious ruling regarding the proposed options for solving the problem of a married man who has entered into a customary (urfi) marriage with another woman, feels guilty, and refuses to divorce his first wife?
Does a verbal divorce take effect after more than seven months without the wife's return, and is a divorce enacted by the mazoun (official capable of solemnizing marriages and divorces) counted as two divorces or one, especially given the presence of a threat and explicit wording in the first divorce?
What is the ruling on a man saying to his wife: "By divorce, I will marry over you"?
Is the marriage contract valid if it was conducted in the mosque with two unknown witnesses, without agreement on the dowry, and with the two parties neither prepared for marriage nor announcing the marriage?
What is divorce?
Is the aforementioned marriage considered Islamically valid, is the child born from it legitimate, and are the divorces that occurred during this marriage counted?
What are the rulings regarding the specified and unspecified dowry, and what is their relationship to the ruling and amount of the marriage contract? Is a gift considered part of the dowry, and is there a book in the Hanbali school of thought that addresses the topic of dowry or dower?
Does a divorce that occurs in a فساد marriage not count, meaning there are only two divorces, and a رجعة is possible with a new contract and dowry? And does the second divorce that occurred under duress not count, meaning it is only one divorce? Or has the wife become forbidden to the husband until she marries another man in an ongoing marriage?
Is it permissible to delay marriage for a year to gather money, buy a car, and provide the dowry and wedding expenses, given the ability and the urgency to marry due to strong desire?
What should the divorced woman do whose ex-husband agreed to reconcile after the 'iddah period expired, then retracted due to his current wife, while she still wishes to reconcile for the sake of her son, given the absence of her capable maharim and the father's fluctuating financial support for the son?
Is the presence of two marriage witnesses required, or is it sufficient to contact them by phone, especially if the groom fears hardship in a non-Islamic country and has brought witnesses from among the People of the Book?
Is opposing a mother’s marriage to a married man who is a provider considered a violation of Sharia, taking into account society’s negative view of such a marriage and the potential for it to result in the divorce of the other wife?
What is the ruling of the Sharia on the marriage of a man aged 48 to a girl not exceeding 12 years of age, and then to another girl aged 14, while he claims that this is "a cover for them," but his wives accuse him of doing so to satisfy his "animalistic desires," coupled with his failure to have intercourse with his first two wives and his injustice in allocating nights among his wives, and do the wives have the right to object and be jealous of him even though he does not mistreat them?
Is the marriage considered void if it was conducted with consent and witnesses but without a guardian, and then the guardian approved it after a period?
What are the consequences for a wife who seeks divorce from her husband who has not paid the dowry (mahr) nor provided a dwelling, and is she obligated to pay him anything, and what are the required procedures?
Must a divorced woman inform her ex-husband of her marriage to another man if she wishes to return to him?
Is a conditional divorce considered valid, especially if it was merely a reaction to future whispers and delusions, and did not include an explicit pronouncement of divorce, with uncertainty regarding the exact wording or intention at the time?
What is the ruling on a man traveling for Jihad in Syria, while his non-observant foreign wife is attached to him and would be psychologically affected by the idea of his travel, and he fears that harm may befall her because of him?
Is it permissible to give zakat to the wife of a paternal uncle who violates Islamic law and abandons prayer, knowing that the wife is the one who provides for the household and the zakat will include the uncle?