Is it permissible for a man to increase the maintenance of the wife who has more children than the other?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: If a man has two wives, and one of them has more children than the other, is it permissible for him to increase the maintenance of the first one in a way that he does not increase it for the second?
Answer:
This is for the sake of the children, not for her sake. He gives the second wife her maintenance and that of her children, or he gives the first wife only her own maintenance because she has no children. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: If a man has two wives, and one of them has more children than the other, is it permissible for him to increase the maintenance of the first one in a way that he does not increase it for the second?
Answer:
This is for the sake of the children, not for her sake. He gives the second wife her maintenance and that of her children, or he gives the first wife only her own maintenance because she has no children. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز أن يزيد نفقة من لها أولاد أكثر من الأخرى؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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