Severe discord between husband and wife

Question

Question: Khalida, the adult daughter of Zayd, having heard from outside that her father Zayd had contracted her marriage to Bakr, who already has a wife, sent word to her father through her mother: “If my marriage is contracted to a man who already has a wife, I will never go (to him), nor will I consent.” The father, through his wife, assured Khalida: “I am not contracting the marriage with that Bakr who has another wife; rather, this is the Bakr who is a bachelor and unmarried.

Answer

If, even in the absence of the conditions on which Khalida had given permission for the nikah, she accepted this nikah as valid — whether at the urging of relatives and kin or out of worldly embarrassment — then according to the Shari‘a that nikah became valid and binding (lazim).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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