Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Nafqa (the wife's maintenance) > Maintenance of the wife and dependants
Updated on 25 September 2026 at 3:23 PM
This chapter faithfully translates the sheets of the Fiqh Encyclopedia (al-Mawsu'ah al-Fiqhiyyah) devoted to the maintenance (nafaqa) a husband owes his wife under the four Sunni schools. It covers the cause and conditions of the obligation, the assessment of its amount, its categories (food, clothing, housing, furnishings, a servant), the sick wife and the wife on pilgrimage, the absent husband, spending by the wife on herself, and dissolution of the marriage for insolvency. School positions, figures, takhrij and classical references are rendered in full.