Equalizing Maintenance Between Sons and Daughters
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. It is known that the requests of daughters and their clothing are more expensive than those of sons. So, is the father required to give them what suffices them, or is the share of the male the same as the share of two females?
The Shaykh:
There is no equalization in maintenance. In maintenance, each person is given according to his need. There is no doubt that the maintenance of the older child is more than the maintenance of the younger, and the maintenance of the male is more than the maintenance of the female, or vice versa. So, justice is that he gives each of his children what he needs. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
It is by ownership. Equalization in ownership. This is consumption, not ownership. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. It is known that the requests of daughters and their clothing are more expensive than those of sons. So, is the father required to give them what suffices them, or is the share of the male the same as the share of two females?
The Shaykh:
There is no equalization in maintenance. In maintenance, each person is given according to his need. There is no doubt that the maintenance of the older child is more than the maintenance of the younger, and the maintenance of the male is more than the maintenance of the female, or vice versa. So, justice is that he gives each of his children what he needs. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
It is by ownership. Equalization in ownership. This is consumption, not ownership. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 086-كتاب النفقات - 10-10-25 هـ — archive.org (23:13)
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