Marriage impediments

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Permanent and temporary marriage impediments: kinship, nursing, conjugal tie, oath, triple divorce and plurality.

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Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM

Women forbidden in marriage from A to Z: the seven kinship categories, breastfeeding, alliance, lian, the Prophets wives, then the fornicator, the disbeliever and the owned woman, school by school.

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The evidence among the classical schools

Bidayat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd · comparative

The fifth chapter on the marriages forbidden by the Law, the corrupt marriages and their ruling. The marriages in which prohibition came explicitly are four: the shighar marriage, the marriage of enjoyment (mut'a), the betrothal upon the betrothal of a brother, and the marriage of the muhallil (the one who makes lawful).

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