The ruling on drawing lots between two wives during days of travel
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says that he has two wives. He says he traveled to Riyadh and took the second one with him to Riyadh for two weeks. The first one demanded that he give her two weeks, just like the other. He says he went back to take her from her family, but she refused. Then he returned home, and she is demanding the two weeks. Does she have that right according to the Shari'ah? And am I sinful?
Answer:
It was obligatory for you to draw lots between them, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do when traveling. He would draw lots between his wives, and whoever the lot came out for, he would travel with her. He does not make up the days of travel for the other one, because he is absent. As long as he is absent, the one in the city has no right to his time during the period of his absence. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says that he has two wives. He says he traveled to Riyadh and took the second one with him to Riyadh for two weeks. The first one demanded that he give her two weeks, just like the other. He says he went back to take her from her family, but she refused. Then he returned home, and she is demanding the two weeks. Does she have that right according to the Shari'ah? And am I sinful?
Answer:
It was obligatory for you to draw lots between them, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do when traveling. He would draw lots between his wives, and whoever the lot came out for, he would travel with her. He does not make up the days of travel for the other one, because he is absent. As long as he is absent, the one in the city has no right to his time during the period of his absence. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من قول المُصَنِّف : والمقصود : أن من علامات أمراض القلوب عدولها عن الأغذية النافعة — islamhouse.com (1:09:54)
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