Is it authentic that Shaykh Ibn Baz permitted temporary marriage?
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Question:
A questioner says: Please inform us, may Allah grant you success. Is it true that some local and Arab newspapers reported your fatwa permitting temporary marriage?
Answer:
This is false; there is no basis for it. This is the fatwa of the Rafidah. They are the ones who permit temporary marriage. A group of the Rafidah, not all of them, but a group of the Rafidah. What was issued by us—the Permanent Committee, and I am one of them, and I am their president—is that there is no harm in a man marrying with the intention of divorcing. This is what the author of al-Mughni said about the majority of scholars. Al-Muqaddam ibn Qudamah mentioned it in al-Mughni regarding the majority of scholars: that if a man marries and intends to divorce, that does not harm him, provided there is no stipulation between him and the woman’s family, or between him and the woman, or her guardian, and no one knows of it except Allah.
For example, he marries in a country he traveled to for study or for other reasons, or for any reason, and he intends to divorce when he leaves the country, or when such and such happens, or for any reason in his intention and heart, between him and Allah, that he will divorce in the future. This is what the majority said.
Some scholars held that this intention is not permissible. They attributed this to al-Awza'i (may Allah have mercy on him), the imam of the people of Sham, and they associated it with temporary marriage.
As for the majority, they say: It is not associated with temporary marriage; because it is a matter between him and his Lord, and divorce is permissible for him. He may divorce whenever he wishes, even if he did not intend this outcome.
But people of desire, or ignorance, or corrupt motives, when they hear such a fatwa and its like, they interpret it in the worst possible way, or they associate with it what is not part of it.
A questioner says: Please inform us, may Allah grant you success. Is it true that some local and Arab newspapers reported your fatwa permitting temporary marriage?
Answer:
This is false; there is no basis for it. This is the fatwa of the Rafidah. They are the ones who permit temporary marriage. A group of the Rafidah, not all of them, but a group of the Rafidah. What was issued by us—the Permanent Committee, and I am one of them, and I am their president—is that there is no harm in a man marrying with the intention of divorcing. This is what the author of al-Mughni said about the majority of scholars. Al-Muqaddam ibn Qudamah mentioned it in al-Mughni regarding the majority of scholars: that if a man marries and intends to divorce, that does not harm him, provided there is no stipulation between him and the woman’s family, or between him and the woman, or her guardian, and no one knows of it except Allah.
For example, he marries in a country he traveled to for study or for other reasons, or for any reason, and he intends to divorce when he leaves the country, or when such and such happens, or for any reason in his intention and heart, between him and Allah, that he will divorce in the future. This is what the majority said.
Some scholars held that this intention is not permissible. They attributed this to al-Awza'i (may Allah have mercy on him), the imam of the people of Sham, and they associated it with temporary marriage.
As for the majority, they say: It is not associated with temporary marriage; because it is a matter between him and his Lord, and divorce is permissible for him. He may divorce whenever he wishes, even if he did not intend this outcome.
But people of desire, or ignorance, or corrupt motives, when they hear such a fatwa and its like, they interpret it in the worst possible way, or they associate with it what is not part of it.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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