Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Forbidden marriages: shighar, muta and muhallil > The muhallil, marriage in ihram, the sick man and secret marriage
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Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM
These sheets from the fiqh encyclopedia (al-Mawsua al-fiqhiyya), chapter on forbidden marriages, complete the study of the muhallil marriage, the one who makes lawful to her first husband the woman divorced three times: the form where the divorce is stipulated before the contract, the one where the intent at the contract contradicts the condition, the one where the intent is concealed from the wife or the first husband, and the one where the spouses keep their agreement secret. The legal effects of this marriage are then examined, the qualities required of the muhallil husband (maturity, sanity, capability), then three other debated marriages: that of the pilgrim in a state of ihram for hajj or umrah, that of the sick person, and the secret marriage. The exact positions of the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali schools are reported with their classical sources, their hadiths and their takhrij.