If a man divorces two women before consummating the marriage with them, do the two women become forbidden to the man’s son?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I divorced two women, and I did not consummate the marriage with them. I then married after them, and Allah granted me a son. Do the two previously divorced women become forbidden to my son?
Answer:
Yes, they are forbidden to him because they are his father’s wives. Yes, they are forbidden by the marriage contract. A father’s wife is forbidden by the marriage contract, even if he did not consummate the marriage with her,[An-Nisa 4:22], and the meaning of marriage (nikah) here is the contract. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I divorced two women, and I did not consummate the marriage with them. I then married after them, and Allah granted me a son. Do the two previously divorced women become forbidden to my son?
Answer:
Yes, they are forbidden to him because they are his father’s wives. Yes, they are forbidden by the marriage contract. A father’s wife is forbidden by the marriage contract, even if he did not consummate the marriage with her,
And do not marry those [women] whom your fathers married, except what has already occurred
وَلَا تَنكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ آبَاؤُكُم مِّنَ النِّسَاءِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2100- 4717] إذا طلق الرجل امرأتين قبل الدخول بهما، هل تحرم المرأتين على ولد الرجل؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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