Demanding the Mahr Again After Waiving It

Question

Istifta. To the esteemed service of Hazrat Mawlana Mufti. Kindly be so gracious as to send answers to the following few masa’il; it will be a great kindness. (1) For example, Zayd contracted marriage with a woman for a mahr of three hundred dirhams and paid one hundred and fifty dirhams in cash; the remainder the said woman gifted to Zayd and dropped. After seven or eight years had passed he took another woman in nikah.

Answer

(1) Since the woman gifted the remainder of the mahr to the husband and the husband accepted it, revoking the gift (ruju‘ in hiba) in the case described will not be permissible, because the marital bond prevents revocation. [ar]ومنها، أي من العوارض المانعة من الرجوع: الزوجية، سواء كان أحد الزوجين مسلمًا أو كافرًا، كذا في الاختيار شرح المختار[/ar] “And among them — i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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