Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Engagement (khitba) and its rules > Forbidden proposals, withdrawal and engagement gifts
Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM
This second part of the betrothal chapter (al-khitba) of the fiqh encyclopedia gathers eleven sheets. It opens with a reminder about the remarriage of a man who has irrevocably divorced one of his four wives, then deals with the betrothal of the pilgrim in a state of ihram, the four situations of a proposal made over another proposal, the proposal over that of a non-Muslim, the nature of the right protected by the prohibition, the withdrawal of either party, the fate of gifts and expenses, the disclosure of a suitor's defects, the validity of a contract concluded after a forbidden proposal, and the case of the messenger who proposes for himself. The schools' positions are reported with their evidence, their takhrij and their classical references, in full fidelity to the texts.