A father cannot annul the nikah of a minor

Question

Question: Zayd, with his own permission, married his minor daughter to a minor boy. Because of some enmity that arose, Zayd said: “I have annulled my daughter’s nikah.” Does Zayd have the right to annul the nikah, and is a nikah annulled by such words?

Answer

Zayd has no such right at all; this nikah cannot be annulled by his annulling it. The boy, on reaching puberty, will himself be entitled to give talaq.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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