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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Dividing between two wives, one of whom is obedient and the other disobedient

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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, if a man has two wives, the first is obedient and the other is disobedient, is it permissible for him to give the first what he does not give the other, and to divide for her what he does not divide for the other, that is

The Shaykh:
what is permissible is that he may stay with the obedient woman more than with the woman who is disobedient to him, but he must do with her what I intend as the condition: he provides for her, then he boycotts her, then he strikes her. If this does not work, then it is necessary to look into the matter of the two spouses, either through reconciliation or through separation. So they should send a man from his family and a man from her family to find a reconciliation that pleases Allah between them. As for him coming with a reconciliation, this is not permissible,

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.

The Shaykh:
and they should speak kindly to them, so they send a man from his family and a man from her family. Islam has not left anything
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 125 من 175 /شرح بلوغ المرام/النكاح/القسم/صالح الفوزان/الحديث/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (58:49)

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