Hadiths on Marriage

Authentic hadith I advise you to treat women kindly, for the woman was created from a rib, and the most crooked part of the rib is its uppermost part. If you try to straighten it, you will break it; and if you leave it, it will remain crooked. So, treat women kindly. Authentic hadith Some of you would whip your wives as if they were slaves and then have intercourse with them at the end of the day Authentic Let not a believing man hate a believing woman. If he dislikes one of her characteristics, he will be pleased with another Authentic hadith The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade ‘Uthmān ibn Mazh‘ūn to be celibate. If he had given him permission we would have castrated ourselves Authentic hadith A previously married woman should not be married until her verbal consent has been sought, and a virgin should not be married until her permission has been sought. They said: O Messenger of Allah, what is her permission? He said: When she remains silent Good hadith When one of you betroths a woman, if he can look at what urges him to marry her, let him do so Good hadith Announce marriages Authentic There is no marriage except with a guardian Authentic Any woman who marries without the permission of her guardians, her marriage is void-three times-and if he consummated the marriage with her, she would be entitled to the dowry in return for his copulation with her. If a dispute arises between them, the ruler shall be the guardian of whoever has no guardian Authentic hadith A previously-married woman is more entitled to give a decision about her marriage than her guardian, whereas a virgin's permission is to be sought. Her permission is her silence Authentic hadith No woman should perform the marriage of another woman, and no woman should perform her own marriage. It is an adulteress who performs her own marriage Authentic hadith A virgin girl came to the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) and said that her father had married her off although she hated [that marriage]. Therefore, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) gave her the choice Good hadith If a slave marries without his master’s permission, he is a fornicator Authentic hadith May Allah curse the Muhallil (a man who marries an irrevocably divorced woman for the sole purpose of making her lawful for her ex-husband to remarry) and the Muhallal lahu (the ex-husband of the woman who was irrevocably divorced, seeking to remarry her through an unlawful marriage)