The Ruling on Setting Bridal Gifts Among the Members of a Tribe
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, what is your opinion regarding what some tribes do in setting the bridal gifts among the members of the tribe?
The Shaykh:
If the entire tribe agrees on this, there is nothing wrong with it, provided they all agree and consider the interests of the tribe in doing so. They consider the tribe's interests and aim to prevent exorbitance in matters. This is permissible. Our scholars have issued a ruling that there is nothing wrong with this and they approve of it, because it does not harm the women, and it removes harm from the husbands. It is moderate. If they all agree, no one interferes in their affairs or prevents them from this.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
'Umar ibn al-Khattab once intended to set a limit on the bridal gifts and to take the excess and put it in the treasury, but he did not carry this out because the following verse of Allah the Exalted was recited to him:[An-Nisa 4:20] So he withdrew from this. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, what is your opinion regarding what some tribes do in setting the bridal gifts among the members of the tribe?
The Shaykh:
If the entire tribe agrees on this, there is nothing wrong with it, provided they all agree and consider the interests of the tribe in doing so. They consider the tribe's interests and aim to prevent exorbitance in matters. This is permissible. Our scholars have issued a ruling that there is nothing wrong with this and they approve of it, because it does not harm the women, and it removes harm from the husbands. It is moderate. If they all agree, no one interferes in their affairs or prevents them from this.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
'Umar ibn al-Khattab once intended to set a limit on the bridal gifts and to take the excess and put it in the treasury, but he did not carry this out because the following verse of Allah the Exalted was recited to him:
do not take [back] from it anything
فَلَا تَأْخُذُوا مِنْهُ شَيْئًا
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تتمة باب عشرة النساء — islamhouse.com (1:03:16)
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