BOOK 8. KITAB AL-NIKAH
(The Book of Marriage )
Chapter
- One
who can support a wife should marry
- He who sees a woman, and his heart is affected,
should come to his wife, and should have intercourse with her
- Temporary marriage and its prohibition for
all times to come
- It is forbidden to combine a woman and her
father's sister or a woman and her mother's sister together in marriage
- Mubrim (one who is in the state of Ihram)
is forbidden to marry and the disapproval of giving the proposal (in this
state)
- Prohibition of one's making the proposal of
marriage when it has already been made by one's brother until he permits or
gives her up
- It is prohibited to contract shighar marriage
- Fulfilling of condition in marriage
- Seeking consent of al-Thayyib in marriage
in words and of a virgin in (meaningful) silence
- It is permissible for the father to give the
hand of his daughter in marriage even when she is not fully grown up
- Excellence of marrying or being married during
the month of Shawwal and excellence of taking bride in the house during this
month
- It is permissible to caste a glance at the
face and the palms of a woman who one intends to marry
- The dower
- Excellence of emancipatiiag a slave-girl and
then marrying her
- Pertaining to the marriage of Zainab bint
Jahsh with the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) and verses pertaining
to purdah veil)
- When one is invited to a wedding feast, one
should accept it
- It is not permissible to marry a woman who
it divorced by three pronouncements until she is married to another, man and
he has a sexual intercourse with her, and then he abandons her and she completes
her 'Idda
- What is to be suplicated at the time of sexual
intercourse.
- Permissibility of having sexual intercourse
with one's wife from the front or from behind avoiding the anus.
- It is not permissible for a woman to abandon
the bed of her husband
- It is forbidden to divulge the secret of the
woman.
- Al-Azl (incomplete sexual intercourse): Coitus
Interruptus
- It is forbidden to have intercourse with a
pregnant slave woman
- Permissibility of intercourse with a suckling
lady and disapproval of 'Azl.
- Kitab Al-Rada'a-Book pertaining to fosterage
- It is forbidden to marry the step daughter
and the sister of the wife (when the wife is alive and not divorced).
- One suckling or two do not make marriage unlawful.
- Suckling of a young (boy).
- It is permissible to have sexual intercourse
with a captive woman after she is purified (of menses or delivery) in case
she has a husband, her marriage is abrogated after she becomes captive.
- The child is attributed to one on whose bed
it is born and one must avoid suspicion.
- Tracing of relationship from physical features.
- How long after marrying one should stay with
a virgin or a woman previously married.
- Sharing visits to one's wives equally.
- Permissiblity of bestowing the turn on one's
fellow-wife.
- Excellence of contracting marriage with a
pious lady
- Excellence of marrying a virgin.
- The good of this world is the pious woman.
- Advice in regards to woman.