Ruling on Compelling the Prospective Husband to Pay a Sum to the Bride's Tribe
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Question:
A letter reached the program from one of the listening brothers. The questioner, 'Atiyyah Mas'ud from Makkah al-Mukarramah, asks and says: A man married the ward of a man from another tribe. At the time of the marriage, they demanded from him a sum of money equal to eight thousand riyals, in addition to the mahr, to be paid by the bride's guardian to her tribe according to custom. This is because the one who married is not from the same tribe, so they take such a sum from anyone who marries their ward outside the tribe, and they put it in the tribe's fund for emergencies.
My question is: Is this permissible, or is it of the kind of forbidden extortion in the Shari'ah? And what do you advise people to do? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This practice is not permissible, that they compel the prospective husband from outside their tribe to pay the tribe eight thousand or more or less. Because this causes women to be left unmarried, and because it is taking money without right. The mahr is for the woman; the mahr is for the woman, not for the tribe. So it is not permissible to engage in this practice. Rather, it is a wrong, and it must be stopped. It is obligatory for the one in authority in the country where this exists to stop it.
And if they want to benefit themselves, let them give from their own money for the incidents that occur among them from their own money. As for taking from the money of people who are proposing to marry their daughters from outside the tribe, this is an error and a deterrent from marriage and a cause of women being left unmarried. So it is obligatory to prevent this strictly, and Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
A letter reached the program from one of the listening brothers. The questioner, 'Atiyyah Mas'ud from Makkah al-Mukarramah, asks and says: A man married the ward of a man from another tribe. At the time of the marriage, they demanded from him a sum of money equal to eight thousand riyals, in addition to the mahr, to be paid by the bride's guardian to her tribe according to custom. This is because the one who married is not from the same tribe, so they take such a sum from anyone who marries their ward outside the tribe, and they put it in the tribe's fund for emergencies.
My question is: Is this permissible, or is it of the kind of forbidden extortion in the Shari'ah? And what do you advise people to do? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This practice is not permissible, that they compel the prospective husband from outside their tribe to pay the tribe eight thousand or more or less. Because this causes women to be left unmarried, and because it is taking money without right. The mahr is for the woman; the mahr is for the woman, not for the tribe. So it is not permissible to engage in this practice. Rather, it is a wrong, and it must be stopped. It is obligatory for the one in authority in the country where this exists to stop it.
And if they want to benefit themselves, let them give from their own money for the incidents that occur among them from their own money. As for taking from the money of people who are proposing to marry their daughters from outside the tribe, this is an error and a deterrent from marriage and a cause of women being left unmarried. So it is obligatory to prevent this strictly, and Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
Source
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