Returning things given at the engagement if the nikah does not take place

Question

Zayd arranged the engagement of his son Khalid to Bakr’s daughter Zaynab. With us an engagement takes this form: the girl’s side sends the boy’s side some rupees — for example fifty, a hundred or a hundred and fifty, whatever each can afford — and some gulgule (fried sweet dough balls), lumps of unrefined sugar or sugar drops and the like; and the boy’s side too gives a sari, a kurta (long shirt) and the like.

Answer

[ar]قَالَ الشَّامِيُّ بَعْدَ ذِكْرِ الْأَقْوَالِ الْمُخْتَلِفَةِ: وَأَيَّدَهُ فِي الْخَيْرِيَّةِ فِي كِتَابِ النَّفَقَاتِ وَأَفْتَى بِهِ، حَيْثُ سُئِلَ فِيمَنْ خَطَبَ امْرَأَةً وَأَنْفَقَ عَلَيْهَا، وَعَلِمَتْ أَنَّهُ يُنْفِقُ لِيَتَزَوَّجَهَا، فَتَزَوَّجَتْ غَيْرَهُ، فَأَجَابَ بِأَنَّهُ يَرْجِعُ، وَاسْتَشْهَدَ لَهُ بِكَلَامِ قَاضِي خَانْ الْمَذْكُورِ وَغَيْرِهِ، وَقَالَ:…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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