6 Ahmed Ali Unlawful are your mothers and daughters and your sisters to you, and the sisters of your fathers and your mothers, and the daughters of your brothers and sisters, and foster mothers, foster sisters, and the mothers of your wives, and the daughters of the wives you have slept with who are under your charge; but in case you have not slept with them there is no offence if you marry their daughters ; and the wives of your own begotten sons; and marrying two sisters is unlawful | Therefore, do not offer me to marry your daughters or sisters |
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" She said, "We were told that you want to marry the daughter of Abu Salamah | And it is forbidden unto you that ye should have two sisters together, except what hath already happened of that nature in the past |
A Doubt and Rebuttal Why is the wife of one's son from suckling prohibited for him for marriage - that is, if she is no longer married to his son from suckling - as the majority of scholars state, although they are not related by blood! They all stated that taking two sisters as rival wives is prohibited, and that whoever embraces Islam while married to two sisters at the same time is given the choice to keep one of them and divorce the other.
17But if you have not gone in unto them, there is no sin upon you | You are forbidden to marry the wives of your own sons and to marry two sisters at the same time without any adverse affect to the such relations of the past |
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Forbidden unto you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your father's sisters, and your mother's sisters, and your brother's daughters and your sister's daughters, and your foster-mothers, and your foster-sisters, and your mothers-in-law, and your step-daughters who are under your protection born of your women unto whom ye have gone in - but if ye have not gone in unto them, then it is no sin for you to marry their daughters - and the wives of your sons who spring from your own loins | Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful |
It means that these two Ayat encompass these types of women, whether the marriage was consummated or not, and there is a consensus on this ruling.
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