The Fifth Wife: Are Her Husband's Children Mahram to Her?
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Praise be to Allah alone, and may prayers and peace be upon the one after whom there is no prophet. After that: The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta has reviewed what was sent to His Eminence the Grand Mufti from the questioner: the Director of the Dawah and Guidance Center in Makkah al-Mukarramah, referred to the Committee by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars with number (7006) and date 7/6/1424 AH. The questioner asked a question, the text of which is: I submit to your Excellency the question directed from the brother: (A. A. A.), and his question is that a man married a woman, and after a period of time it became clear that she was the fifth wife, and her marriage is invalid by the fatwa of the Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, (may Allah have mercy on him). Is it permissible for his children from the previous wife to meet her?
After studying the inquiry, the Committee answered that the sons of the aforementioned man do not become mahram to the woman whom their father married through an invalid marriage, pursuant to the fatwa of His Eminence the Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, (may Allah have mercy on him), because she is the fifth wife; for the existence of this marriage is like its non-existence, so the status of mahram does not result from it.
After studying the inquiry, the Committee answered that the sons of the aforementioned man do not become mahram to the woman whom their father married through an invalid marriage, pursuant to the fatwa of His Eminence the Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, (may Allah have mercy on him), because she is the fifth wife; for the existence of this marriage is like its non-existence, so the status of mahram does not result from it.
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