Is it permissible for a son to help his father pay off his debt?

Question:
My father married his daughter for a sum of 150,000 riyals. After the marriage contract was concluded, a dispute arose between him and the man who married his daughter. My father. Hmm? My father. Ah. My father married his daughter for a sum of 150,000 riyals. After the marriage contract was concluded, a dispute arose between him and the husband, which led the man to demand the money from my father. He is currently unable to pay it off. Is it permissible for me to pay some of it? Is this considered cooperation in righteousness and piety, or what should I do? Please advise us, and may Allah reward you.

Answer:
There is a distinction here. If your father married his daughter for 150,000 and then they disagreed, the matter is up to them if they reach a settlement; otherwise, the court will look into their case. If the husband wants to divorce her before consummation and seclusion, he is entitled to half. However, if her father prevented her from him, or if she refused, he is entitled to the return of the entire mahr. If she refused, or if her father prevented him, he is entitled to the return of the entire amount. But if it was he who took a dislike to her, he is entitled to half, as Allah said: . If you want to help your father because the money went out and was spent on household needs or on paying off his debt, and you want to help from your own wealth, you will be rewarded for that. This is one of the greatest forms of dutifulness to help in that if he is unable to do so, unless the husband was prevented without right.
Help in that, rather, let him yield to allowing the woman to be with her husband. For some fathers have malicious intentions; greed may lead them to much evil. They may want to divorce her and then marry her to someone else and take his money, and so on and so on. This harms the woman and harms all Muslims. So if you know that your father is in the wrong, do not help in this at all, for one does not help the one who is in the wrong. Allah says: . But if the husband took a dislike to her and did not love her for other reasons, and your father did not transgress against him, but rather it was he who took a dislike to her and was unable to return half to him, and you helped him, there is no harm. One must observe the rule: do not cooperate in sin and transgression.