Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Forbidden marriages: shighar, muta and muhallil > Shighar, muta and the muhallil: forbidden forms
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This chapter of the fiqh encyclopedia (al-Mawsu'a al-fiqhiyya) on prohibited marriages examines in turn the shighar marriage (the exchange of daughters between two guardians, in three questions), then the time-limited pleasure marriage (mut'a), the question of the hadd punishment for contracting it, marriage with a condition of divorce, marriage with an intention of divorce, and finally the forms of the muhallil marriage, in which a man marries a woman in order to make her lawful again for her first husband. Each sheet reports the exact positions of the four schools, the hadiths with their numbers, and the references of the classical works that cite them.