Marrying the Divorced Wife of One’s Stepson While His Mother Is in One’s Nikah

Question

A man married his brother’s wife. She had a child from the brother who was still being breastfed (literally: “was drinking the brother’s milk”). When this child grew up, he was married off; this young man divorced his wife, and then the paternal uncle married his wife as well. Is this nikah permissible or not, given that the young man’s mother is in his nikah? People call it zina.

Answer

It is impermissible to combine in nikah two women such that, whichever of them is supposed to be a man, her nikah with the other would be impermissible. Here the situation is this: if his first wife is supposed to be a man, her nikah with the young man’s wife would be impermissible, because she would be her son’s wife, and in the Noble Qur’an it is said: [ar]وَحَلَـٰٓئِلُ…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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