The Ruling on Taking Money in Exchange for Marriage Contracts
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The questioner:
He says: Some people take the permission to perform marriage contracts, and those who contract marriages with them pay them some money. Is this action permissible?
The Shaykh:
The one trusted with this enters through the Ministry of Justice, which is related to the judiciary. The Sunnah is for people to permit the people of the ummah, the students of knowledge, to collect marriage contracts for women. This is a good and righteous deed. It is obligatory for the trusted ones to fear Allah, to make things easy for the people, and to be careful in matters until they marry men to women with insight and in accordance with the way of Allah the Exalted. If someone pays them some money or assistance without any demand, delay, or harm to anyone, and if they have salaries, though their salaries may be small and may need completion, then if something is paid to him without him asking for it, without delay or harm to anyone, and he is fulfilling his duty, I do not know of anything wrong with this.
The questioner:
Shaykh, may Allah reward you. One person only performs a contract for a thousand riyals.
The Shaykh:
He knows, then he refers the matter to the son of al-Adl, because he is the one responsible for this matter, or he refers the matter to the son of al-Adl so that he may replace him with someone else and take charge of it, and take...
The questioner:
The reason says.
The Shaykh:
If you know that someone knows something, he refers it. Yes.
He says: Some people take the permission to perform marriage contracts, and those who contract marriages with them pay them some money. Is this action permissible?
The Shaykh:
The one trusted with this enters through the Ministry of Justice, which is related to the judiciary. The Sunnah is for people to permit the people of the ummah, the students of knowledge, to collect marriage contracts for women. This is a good and righteous deed. It is obligatory for the trusted ones to fear Allah, to make things easy for the people, and to be careful in matters until they marry men to women with insight and in accordance with the way of Allah the Exalted. If someone pays them some money or assistance without any demand, delay, or harm to anyone, and if they have salaries, though their salaries may be small and may need completion, then if something is paid to him without him asking for it, without delay or harm to anyone, and he is fulfilling his duty, I do not know of anything wrong with this.
The questioner:
Shaykh, may Allah reward you. One person only performs a contract for a thousand riyals.
The Shaykh:
He knows, then he refers the matter to the son of al-Adl, because he is the one responsible for this matter, or he refers the matter to the son of al-Adl so that he may replace him with someone else and take charge of it, and take...
The questioner:
The reason says.
The Shaykh:
If you know that someone knows something, he refers it. Yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، حكم أخذ المال مقابل عقد النكاح 0 - بن باز - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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