Is the presence of the suitor's family and their seeing the fiancée before the suitor a religious obligation or merely a custom, and what is the evidence for that? Is it true that if the suitor is unable to attend, his family may go to see the girl?
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The suitor is not obligated to see the fiancée, rather it is recommended. It is permissible for the suitor to delegate a woman or a man of the fiancée to look at her on his behalf. The evidence for this is that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, "sent Umm Sulaym to a woman and said: 'Look at her ankles and smell her front teeth.'"
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