Category:The Book of Marriage in Muwata Malik

List of Chapters in The Book of Marriage

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The Book of Marriage Summary

1. Malik said The explanation of thestatement of the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant himpeace according to what we think and Allah knows best is that Donot ask for a woman in marriage when another muslim has already doneso means that when a man has asked for a woman in marriage and shehas inclined to him and they have agreed on a bride price which shehas suggested and with which they are mutually satisfied it isforbidden for another man to ask for that woman in marriage
2. Allah knows that you will be mindful ofthem but do not make troth with them secretly without honourablewords Sura ayat that it referred to a man saying to a womanwhile she was still in her idda after the death of her husband Youare dear to me and I desire you and Allah brings provision andblessing to you and words such as these
3. Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibnAbd al Aziz during his khalifate wrote to one of his governors Whatever a father or guardian who gives someone in marriage makesa condition in the way of unreturnable gift or of favour belongs tothe woman if she wants it
4. Malik said about a man who marriedoff his young son and the son had no wealth at all that the bride price was obliged of the father if the young man had no property onthe day of marriage
5. If the young man did have property the bride price was taken from his property unless the father stipulated that hewould pay the bride price
6. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibnMuhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm from Abd al Malik ibn Abi Bakr ibn Abd ar Rahman ibn al Harith ibn Hisham al Makhzumi from his father that whenthe Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace married Umm Salama and then spent the night with her he said to her You are not being humbled in your right
7. Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from al Qasimibn Muhammad that A isha the wife of the Prophet may Allah bless himand grant him peace said when asked whether it was permissible for aman to marry again a wife he had divorced irrevocably if she hadmarried another man who divorced her before consummating the marriage Not until she has tasted the sweetness of intercourse
8. Yahya related to me from Malik from more than one source thatwhen Abdullah ibn Masud was in Kufa he was asked for an opinion aboutmarrying the mother after marrying the daughter when the marriage withthe daughter had not been consummated
9. Malik said The practice with usconcerning a free woman whose husband dies is that she does an iddaof four months and ten days and she does not marry if she doubts herperiod until she is free of any doubt or if she fears that she ispregnant
10. Maliksaid A free man must not marry a slave girl when he can afford tomarry a free woman and he should not marry a slave girl when hecannot afford a free woman unless he fears fornication
11. That isbecause Allah may he be Blessed and Exalted says in His Book Ifyou are not affluent enough to marry believing women who aremuhsanat take slave girls who are believing women that your righthands own
12. Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Said ibnal Musayyab and Sulayman ibn Yasar were asked whether when a manmarried a slave of his to a slave girl and the slave divorced herirrevocably and then her master gave her to the slave she was thenhalal for the slave by the possession of the right hand
13. Malik said It is not halal to marry a christian or jewishslave girl because Allah the Blessed the Exalted said in His Book Believing women who are muhsanat and women of those who were giventhe Book before you who are muhsanat sura ayat and they arefree women from the Christians and Jews
14. If she is the wife of a freeman and then she isset free while she is his wife before he separates from her the manmakes her muhsana if he has intercourse with her after she has beenset free
15. The Messenger of Allah may Allah blesshim and grant him peace sent Safwan s paternal cousin Wahb ibn Umayrwith the cloak of the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him andgrant him peace as a safe conduct for Safwan ibn Umayya and theMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace calledhim to Islam and asked for him to come to him and if he was pleasedwith the matter to accept it
16. When Safwan came to the Messenger of Allah may Allahbless him and grant him peace with his cloak he called out to himover the heads of the people Muhammad Wahb ibn Umayr brought meyour cloak and claimed that you had summoned me to come to you and ifI was pleased with the matter I should accept it and if not youwould give me a respite for two months
17. If you like continue and put up with what you seeof preference and if you like I will separate from you

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