The Appointed Imam Had the Nikah Performed by Someone Else

Question

In our place the appointed imam of the Jami‘ Mosque performs nikahs and leads funeral prayers. Now, a man came one afternoon and said: “Please come at 4 o’clock in the evening; there will be a nikah.” As a precaution the imam took a man along with him, since he had to return at night, and the night was dark. Those people too were waiting with a conveyance. Both men sat in the conveyance and arrived there at Maghrib, and then those people took them to their home.

Answer

If the imam made an inquiry and saw from the fatwa that this nikah is valid, and then told his companion, “You perform the nikah,” and the companion performed it, then even so objecting to the imam is unwarranted and wrong. If, for some consideration (maslaha)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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