Her paternal sister married and she and her husband cut off ties with him
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Fatwa number ( 7036 )
Q: I have a sister from my father. Her husband is her brother from both her mother and father
- and this was after her father’s death - she married her cousin, the son of her father’s brother. We, her brothers from her father, were not consulted, and the aforementioned husband also prevented us from being consulted. He also prevented us from visiting after he married her, and he prevented her from visiting us as well. She has been with him for 13 years now and has given birth to approximately four children. Despite what he did, I visited her from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah , where she is in Tabuk , seven years ago, and I visited her several times. It is known that he prevented her, as I mentioned above, from visiting me and my brothers from my mother and father. I had several discussions with her husband and her brothers from her mother and father, and what happened and what I understood from both sides is that they agreed on this approach. After I despaired of their yielding to the truth and their insistence on falsehood, I stopped visiting them personally. This is all, and peace be upon you. It is known that when the marriage took place, an agreement was reached between the woman and her brothers from her mother not to visit her brothers from her father. Cooperation took place between the two parties - namely, the husband and her brothers from her mother and father - in sin and aggression by cutting off ties with us, her brothers from her father. It has now been about four years since we visited her. I ask for the Shari'ah ruling on what I mentioned above: Is the husband obligated by Shari'ah to visit our sister for us, or not? And do we bear sin in boycotting her for that duration, given that the reason for it is her husband and her brothers from her mother and father?
A : If the situation is as you described, then whoever maintains his kinship ties is rewarded, and the sin is upon the one who cuts off his kinship ties without a valid Shari'ah excuse. It is obligatory for both parties to maintain contact, advise one another, and cooperate in what is right; this is for the sake of maintaining kinship ties and fulfilling the right of Islam and kinship; as Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:36] the verse, and His saying: the two verses from Surat al-Isra, and due to the hadiths that came regarding the encouragement of maintaining kinship ties and the warning against cutting them off. Indeed, the Muslim should maintain ties with the one who cuts him off from his kin; as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sunan al-Bayhaqi 10:623 . And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Q: I have a sister from my father. Her husband is her brother from both her mother and father
- and this was after her father’s death - she married her cousin, the son of her father’s brother. We, her brothers from her father, were not consulted, and the aforementioned husband also prevented us from being consulted. He also prevented us from visiting after he married her, and he prevented her from visiting us as well. She has been with him for 13 years now and has given birth to approximately four children. Despite what he did, I visited her from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah , where she is in Tabuk , seven years ago, and I visited her several times. It is known that he prevented her, as I mentioned above, from visiting me and my brothers from my mother and father. I had several discussions with her husband and her brothers from her mother and father, and what happened and what I understood from both sides is that they agreed on this approach. After I despaired of their yielding to the truth and their insistence on falsehood, I stopped visiting them personally. This is all, and peace be upon you. It is known that when the marriage took place, an agreement was reached between the woman and her brothers from her mother not to visit her brothers from her father. Cooperation took place between the two parties - namely, the husband and her brothers from her mother and father - in sin and aggression by cutting off ties with us, her brothers from her father. It has now been about four years since we visited her. I ask for the Shari'ah ruling on what I mentioned above: Is the husband obligated by Shari'ah to visit our sister for us, or not? And do we bear sin in boycotting her for that duration, given that the reason for it is her husband and her brothers from her mother and father?
A : If the situation is as you described, then whoever maintains his kinship ties is rewarded, and the sin is upon the one who cuts off his kinship ties without a valid Shari'ah excuse. It is obligatory for both parties to maintain contact, advise one another, and cooperate in what is right; this is for the sake of maintaining kinship ties and fulfilling the right of Islam and kinship; as Allah the Exalted said:
Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives
وَاعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَلاَ تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًا وَبِذِي الْقُرْبَىAnd give the relative his right
وَآتِ ذَا الْقُرْبَى حَقَّهُThe one who maintains kinship ties is not the one who reciprocates; rather, the one who maintains kinship ties is the one who, when his kinship ties are cut off, maintains them
ليس الواصل بالمكافئ، إنما الواصل من إذا قطعت رحمه وصلها
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