Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > The pillars and conditions of nikah > Contract clauses: maintenance, nights, stipulated divorce
Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM
This second part of the nikah chapter completes the study of the null conditions that may occur in the marriage contract: absence of maintenance, the wife supporting the husband, waiving the sharing of nights, abstention from consummation, divorcing the co-wife, and excluding mutual inheritance. It then deals with khul', divorce by ransom: its legitimacy through the Quran, the Sunnah, consensus and reason, its three categories, its legal nature between dissolution and irrevocable divorce, the stratagem aimed at preventing the divorce from taking effect, and the question of resorting to a judge. Each question is treated according to the explicit positions of the four schools, with their classical references.