The Ruling on Marrying Relatives

Question:
He says that he is a young man who has resolved and placed his reliance on Allah to marry one of his maternal aunt’s daughters, but some people said that marrying relatives involves many problems and errors, so they advised him not to marry them.

Answer:
This is a false rumor, and there is nothing preventing you from marrying your female relatives. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) married his female relatives from the daughters of his paternal uncles from Quraysh, and he married his daughter to his paternal cousin, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib; he married Fatimah to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib. So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) married from Quraysh; he married Hafsa, the daughter of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, he married 'A'ishah, the daughter of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, and before that he married Khadijah. All of them were from Quraysh, from his female relatives, and he is the role model (peace and blessings be upon him). So there is no objection to marrying female relatives, and this is a false rumor. Yes.