The formula of the marriage contract (the siyaqaha)

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Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM

The siyaqaha is the formula of the marriage contract: the exact words by which the marital bond is concluded. Jurists examined every word that might be pronounced: the explicit terms of marriage, indicative formulas such as the gift or the sale, formulas with no effect, pronunciation errors, the language used, the grammatical tense, unity of the session, immediacy of the reply and suspension to a condition.

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