Invalid Conditions

Making a condition with one's wife that one will not marry a second or third wife

Submitted by user2 on Wed, 2021-09-15 06:51

Q: Is it permissible to agree not to marry a second or third wife as a condition of a nikaah with the first wife? Is there evidence from the first 3 generations of Muslims (may Allah send peace and blessings on them) of such a condition taking place?

Marrying for a specific period of time

Submitted by user5 on Tue, 2021-09-07 07:27

Q: I am 60+ and a widower. My children are abroad. I want to marry a Muslim lady widow to take care of me.

Can I marry her with the following terms:

1. She will get paid an agreed amount monthly, live with me and do all my chores for an agreed period of time, say 7-10 years.

2. She will not get any share in my property after me.

Seeking repentance for one's past sins before marriage

Submitted by user2 on Thu, 2021-01-14 07:32

Q: If a man and woman commit zina before getting married. After their marriage, they had children and realized that what they have done before marriage was a sin. But they do not repent when being married because they dont have knowlegde that before marriage they had to repent.

After 6 years they got to know that they should have repented before nikaah, otherwise their nikaah is invalid. Is their nikaah valid or not as they repented after 6 years of marriage.

Girl completing the recitation of the Quraan in front of an Ustaadh for marriage proposal to be accepted

Submitted by user2 on Sat, 2020-12-05 07:23

Q: My mom said that during marriage, the husbands family asks the girl if she had completed reading the Quran in front of an aalim/muallima/ustaadh.

I find no logic behind this, please tell the ruling about this according to the sunnah.

Marrying a woman with the condition of not taking a second wife

Submitted by user2 on Mon, 2019-03-04 07:58

Q: If a lady marries a man on a condition that he will not take a second wife and he agrees, will the nikaah be valid? 

Making the condition that the husband cannot take a second wife

Submitted by user2 on Mon, 2018-02-19 08:01

Q: I am planning to get married and proposed for a certain girl. The girl whom I want to marry said that if I accept the condition of not taking a second wife in the future, then she will marry me. Personally, I also do not want to take a second wife in the future. I want to spend my life with my first wife till I die. The question is: can we make the condition of not taking a second wife in the future at the time of the nikaah?

Making a condition that the husband cannot remarry

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2016-03-10 07:39

Q: I just wanted to ask a question. I am having my nikaah done at the mosque in a week. I have researched upon the topic of allowing your husband to remarry. I wanted to have a condition in my nikaah that my husband should not remarry whilst he is married to me. If he was to do so and hide it from me he will be negligent upon his part. My query is where I live we don't have any blank space etc on the nikaah form to write such a condition. Is it enough for me to just mention it to my husband at the time of nikaah or before etc? He is already aware this is what I want as I have told him before. But online I have read on many sites that you should mention these things at the time of the nikaah otherwise it will not be valid? Please tell me how I should go about it.

Taking permission to get married to a second wife

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2013-09-17 07:39

Q: For a man to marry a second wife, does he need to ask permission to his first wife?

Contract stipulating that the husband cannot take a second wife

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2013-08-24 07:48

Q: Is it permissible for a women to have a contract before marriage stipulating that the husband cannot take another wife for five years. If it is permissible and the husband agrees and violates the agreement by taking another wife, does the wife have grounds for a khula?

Invalid condition in nikaah

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-08-19 08:06

Q: Is it permissible for a woman to stipulate before marriage that the husband cannot take another wife for a certain amount of years? If the husband does take another wife, does it nullify the nikkah?