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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Prohibition of a Son's Wife

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
The questioner asks: Is a son's wife a mahram (a relative one may not marry)?

The Shaykh:
Yes, she is a mahram to your father
the wives of your sons who are from your [own] loinsوَحَلَائِلُ أَبْنَائِكُمُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلَابِكُمْ
[An-Nisa 4:23]
. So, a son's wife is a mahram to the husband's father, yes.

The questioner:
May Allah reward you, O...

The Shaykh:
their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathersزِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا لِبُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ آبَائِهِنَّ أَوْ آبَاءِ بُعُولَتِهِنَّ
[An-Nur 24:31]
So, he is a mahram to her. Yes.
Source شرح عمدة الأحكام، كتاب الرّضاع — islamhouse.com (54:51)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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