Book of Marriage and Related Matters

Question: There is an irreligious man whom his wife sometimes hears denying life after death and rejecting Paradise and Hell; sometimes his children hear him as well. He sometimes prays as a mere formality in front of people. What is...

Question: A woman has a husband who does not pray and is unconcerned about committing sins. She has children from him and she is a believer. What is obligatory upon her? Must she separate from him and leave him?

Question: A woman was married for years. Then the husband fell into insanity. She remained with him, enabled him (sexually), and tended to his needs—doing so because she hoped for his recovery, expected he would get better, and assumed that...

Question: If a husband finds his wife not a virgin, is it permissible for him to press her with questions, to query her insistently and argue, or is that impermissible?

Question: If a husband asks his wife for, say, some of her gold, and she gives it to him and waives her claim; then he later divorces her and she demands the gold back—he says, “You absolved me and waived...

Question: A marriage contract was concluded for a woman, and her guardian stipulated for her a dowry, gold jewelry, clothing, etc. The husband accepted and married her. After some time he came to dislike his wife and divorced her. A...

Question: Two men, each of whom has a son and a daughter, agreed that each would marry his daughter to the other’s son, with the dowry for each girl specified—i.e., this is not shighār. They wrote an agreement between them...

Question: Among the Yemeni tribes it is customary for the bride’s father to stipulate money for himself apart from the bride’s dowry; the amount varies by region. What is your view regarding a man who married off his daughters and...

Question: Two men agreed that each would marry the other to his sister. Each fixed a dowry for his sister of three hundred qirsh (French coin). In the minds of the two men, if one sister would not remain with...

Question: If a man marries a woman and, before the contract, she stipulates that he not remove her from her town or from such-and-such place, and she confirms the condition, and the husband emphatically agrees—so the contract is concluded on...