The Duration of Severing Family Ties
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Question:
What is the duration within which a person is considered to have severed his family ties? Is it a week or a month? And is seeing him in any place sufficient, or is it necessary to visit him at his home?
Answer:
There is no specific determination. This depends on custom. A person visits his relative, for example, or maintains his family ties through the types of connection that are customary. There is no fixed time, neither a week nor anything else. But from time to time. He connects with his relative by greeting him, by phone, picking up the receiver and speaking to him, conveying the salam, sending him a gift, spending on him if he is in need, visiting him on occasions, and the like. That is what severs [the state of severance].
What is the duration within which a person is considered to have severed his family ties? Is it a week or a month? And is seeing him in any place sufficient, or is it necessary to visit him at his home?
Answer:
There is no specific determination. This depends on custom. A person visits his relative, for example, or maintains his family ties through the types of connection that are customary. There is no fixed time, neither a week nor anything else. But from time to time. He connects with his relative by greeting him, by phone, picking up the receiver and speaking to him, conveying the salam, sending him a gift, spending on him if he is in need, visiting him on occasions, and the like. That is what severs [the state of severance].
Source
شرح الدروس المهمة لعامة الأمة لابن باز [ مجموعة من المشايخ ]، فتاوى الشيخ عبد العزيز الراجحي — islamhouse.com (9:19)
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