Forced Marriages
In The Name of Allah The most gracious The most merciful
May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon his last and final messenger Muhammad.
Asalamu Alaykum (Peace be upon you)
For todays topic I have chosen to speak about forced marriages. In some cultures it is normal for fathers to force their daughters to marry the man they want her to marry without giving her any choice and sometimes going as far as to threaten her if she tried to refuse. This is forbidden completely in Islam and that kind of marriage is not considered valid.
It was narrated that Buraydah Ibn Al-Haseeb said: A girl came to the prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and said: My father married me to his brother's son that he might raise his own status thereby. The prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) gave her the choice, and she said: I approve of what my father did, but I wanted women to know that their fathers have no right to do that
Narrated by Ibn Maajah, 1874. It was classed as saheeh by al-Buwaysiri in Masaabeeh az-Zujaajah, 2/102. Similarly Shaykh Muqbil al-Waadi‘i stated: (It is) saheeh according to the conditions of Muslim. End quote from as-Saheeh al-Musnad, p. 160
Here is a clip from a lecture by sheikh khalid yasin talking more on the subject
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