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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on marrying a woman and her maternal aunt together

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The Shaykh:
If Allah wills, we have not heard that she has stopped; it has reached us that she is continuing, but we are looking into it. The matter is that we have made her stop so that she may return, if Allah wills. So, if we assume she has stopped, she must return, if Allah wills, during the days of al-Abha and Khumays al-Jaysh.

The questioner:
The last questioner asks and says: Is it permissible to marry a girl and her maternal aunt together?

The Shaykh:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade marrying a woman and her paternal aunt, and marrying a woman and her maternal aunt. It is not permissible by consensus to marry a woman and her maternal aunt, nor her sister’s daughter, nor her sister’s daughter, nor her brother’s daughter. So one does not marry two sisters. This is forbidden by the consensus of the Muslims. So a man does not marry two women where one is the maternal aunt of the other, or one is the sister of the other, or one is the paternal aunt of the other, or the brother’s daughter, or the sister’s daughter. This is forbidden and not permissible, whether the relationship is by blood or by breastfeeding. There is no difference between blood and breastfeeding in this regard. But there is no harm in marrying a woman and her cousin’s daughter, or her maternal uncle’s daughter, or her maternal aunt’s daughter, or her paternal aunt’s daughter. There is no harm. But with her maternal aunt or her paternal aunt, no. And not with her brother’s daughter or her sister’s daughter. No. Whether the relationship is between women or by breastfeeding, one does not marry them together. Yes. Peace be upon you, O noble one. There is no harm in marrying a woman and her father’s wife, if her father’s wife is a stranger and not her mother, there is no harm. So one may marry them together. And Abdullah ibn Ja’far ibn Abi Talib married his cousin’s daughter and his wife
Source ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 45 — archive.org (21:40)

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