In Depth: The Quranic verse regarding who the Prophet ﷺ could marry | Mufti Abu Layth

right so guys let's discuss ok the verse in the Quran right I'm going to take a look at somebody's asked for more water but let's briefly just look at this verse in the Quran it's from surah ahzab verse 50 mm shaitana Regine let's see people right ok so verse 50 and it's to do with who the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam could have as a wife now people are raising some objections to this verse and they've asked me will we will you

know can I kind of shed some light or explanation on what this verse means so the verses yeah you wanna be you in a lunar locket as Raja Candler TRT Taruna Omar Malek Atiyah Meno come in man fr Allah a leak so Oh Nabi we have made permissible for you halal for you your wives who you have married and you have given the maja to and who has come to you into your possession through through faith Mima fr Allah say now what Burnett or i'mma Carol Burnett automatic and the

daughters through your uncles and the daughters through your wives obinata Kalakaua Bonacci whole attic and the daughters through your maternal uncles and maternal aunt a lot AHA Jaffna mark those women who migrated with you right so they left did the Hegira with you one rotten minute and in waha botanist aha linen abhi and a believing woman if she was to give herself to the prophet in Arad nabiyeen destined que ha ha if the Prophet wanted her in marriage Holly satin laka mean do not mean

exclusively for you as opposed to the Muslims generally now other Allen ah ma farratna Allah him fears watching him and we are aware of what we have mandated for them when it comes to their wives and that which comes to them he says and that which their right hand possesses Lacaille a Acuna Ali kaha Raj so that you don't have any inconvenience where can Allah Allah for or AHIMA and Allah is indeed most merciful most forgiving and then this goes on there's another important verse just two verses after so verse 52 that liya hello la

condesa remember that women are no longer halal for you voila ant a table Adela be Hyneman as virgin and you cannot swap you cannot like exchange as in leave wives and take new wives this is to the Prophet well o Deepika who's known even if you were attracted to them allama Malik Artyom Enoch unless it was what your right hand possesses what can allahu ala kulli shayin rocky bel now the reason i want to explain this verse is because people have asked me that some people are saying well look the right hand possesses that would the

Prophet you know oh what the right hand possesses and God is saying he can have this and if a woman gives herself to the Prophet then the Prophet can have her what does that mean and how come she does the Prophet doesn't have to pay her but normal people like a Maha and normal people pay a Mahad and so what is all of this going on and you know is the profit of being given certain exclusive --'tis and so some people were using this as a kind of attack against the character of the prophet sallallaahu I leave us alone so I tried to translate first of all as closely as I could so you can see where

they taking the understanding from then I will give you the explanation okay now yes this verse is something that first of all is to the Prophet by extension it is to other Muslims as well but exclude it comes it's directed at the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam now there is a difference of opinion I will give you the diverse kind of opinions as well but I will tell you what this first of all meant okay so let me tell you what it actually meant and then I'll tell you those who some a shade the some I think somebody has shared the actual versi I'm not sure

right so this verse is telling the profits alone a new synonym that Allah has addressed him that the wives that you have taken they are hollow to start off with okay this is the first and foremost important thing why because you have to remember this came at the time when some people were trying to spread rumors about the Prophet that oh he's married here his marriage is illegitimate oh he's taken so and so as

a wife and she's it's not legitimate that this isn't and people that said oh has any married zeyneb and zeyneb used to be married - what does it say and this was an adopted son of the Prophet and that marriage is is illegitimate hasn't happened and some people there was an inci some people believe that may muna for example was one of the wives that an Ummah shariq sorry Alma Sahin there was one of the wives that gave herself to the prophet and the Prophet accepted her so some people said though that's not a legitimate marriage these

are not so there was an a of a kind of like a propaganda and people trying to cast suspicion on the character of the Profi so that's the backdrop so that's what's going on and there's nothing new about that I mean it was very well known that in Medina people I have done like no baby salul and other people who are known hypocrites that the Prophet spared he did not harm him even though it was well known he's kind of many attempts to even assassinate the Prophet or to at least always conspire against the Prophet and Muslims yet the Prophet even

prayed his janazah so there wasn't this but these people were known that they did exist in the very midst of the Muslim community in Medina so so these rumors were there and people spreading this and these verses are revealed so the Allah is telling the Prophet that these wives that you have taken a halal for you so that's the first and foremost important point in a loner like as well Jill idiot a toner on that we we have made this Heller these wives that you married and you gave dowry and you did this too we have made them hello for you that this

is halal ladoo no do not listen to the kind of confusion or the the kind of background noise of these people who are hating on you now the next thing some people were objecting about marya clip diya now Marya the she was a cop and she'd come from Egypt she was sent via okis some okis was the ruler at the time in Egypt and he'd sent her and gave her to the Prophet said that look I'm sending this now she was sent as a

servant the Prophet married her now some Muslims have naively not acknowledged that she was married to the Prophet however the student of Imam Malik even isabella writes in his book one of the most earliest historians who writes he writes a book on the akbar of medina on the and he writes a book on the wives of the Prophet SAW watanabe Indy he includes mari Alkatiri he was the direct student of imam ali now yes she lived on the outskirts of medina she lived in the early she was not an arab

and most likely probably couldn't speak Arabic maybe she learnt it along the way but you can imagine the kind of outcast scenarios that that would have created so some people disliked their one this was a very high Arabs were quite hierarchical with the tribal structures - she wasn't even an Arab and the Prophet and her had a very good relationship so you can imagine why some people wouldn't like her and her communication barriers and hence the Prophet so she doesn't have any harm housed her in the hourly which is outside of Medina its it was a residence outside of Medina

now she is the only person who the Prophet ever came to the Prophet like that like she was given to the Prophet the Prophet didn't just take her like that he married her and this is the proof because in this some people have tried to say oh here Malekith IAM enoch means what your right hand possesses but this says mimma are far allow alaikum what is faith faith is those if in his strict sense PHA is used in the quran if the Muslims went let's say there was a battle but there was no battle like the Muslim army went some way and there was no battle but the

people had abandoned property and they had abandoned wealth and they'd abandoned women and children that everything you round up was called fate but that which was obtained through non wolf a that which was obtained through warfare is called Halima okay so the Muharram are not they you can check the books of Sharia they have a totally separate Bab for them and they have separate conditions so there was never anything there was never a woman that was ever presented to the Prophet as faith ever so the only incident that that is used here is is Mari el capitan

this is what abner are sure writes in his stuffs here this is what Maulana Abdul Kareem la3 right sinister fear that the only woman that the Prophet ever had given to him was Maria Katia and they say and some an evening shoe say some people try to say that there was another one called raha now something in an actual battle and he said it was never Sabbath by any authentic hadith that the Prophet actually took her like that said there isn't a single hadith that proves that that is sahi unquestionably now so Maria type Thea right so she was given to the Prophet but the Prophet Morita once

again there were objections to her the other thing that your relatives why does Allah say that were not oh I'm Mika were a mad a Harlequin Harlequin oh no these women are halal and the Prophet did marry from some women related through relatives of his but he didn't marry all of these this was just Allah saying this is permissible not everything that he was saying is permissible the Prophet did so it when he says you can marry the daughters of your uncle and the daughter duties of your art and the daughters of your paternal or maternal uncle and your maternal it didn't mean he married all

of these Allah was making it clear because some people were presenting an objection that this oh we don't believe that permissible so Allah was stating the permissibility in Elna begins we have made these things permissible not mandatory that you have to do it so just to be clear on that now this point then Allah says Allah t ha genomic those women who migrated with you right because this was another question Muslim women that migrated some of them previously dead and the men they'd left

their families because they didn't embrace Islam so they came to a new life those that came to a new life if they were married before does that marriage carry on so the question was it didn't so some people were and there were other people and this was to Muslims as well it wasn't exclusive to the Prophet that part that they could other people married as well they intimate they'd embraced a new faith they'd come to a new residence hundreds of miles away now some people said oh but is that even halal Allah is saying in that well now we have made that ha okay because they've abandoned their ways of old and

they've embraced this theme of Islam okay now this one some people I tried to object that were in one rotten minute and in wahpeton of zaharan abhi and a woman a believing woman who gives herself to the Prophet right gifts herself sorry gifts waha button after her in our other Nabi or in your stanky ha ha ha Lisa come into the moment but this is just for the Prophet now some people said also the Prophet can if a woman gives herself to him he can have her but but if another man wants her then he has to pay and what's this about and how can the Prophet have any favors

done to him look that is so silly and absurd so silly and absurd let me just clarify maja in Islam is a mandatory gift generally speaking okay it's a mandatory gift when a couple get married and the husband gives a gift to the wife this is maja in the incident in fact it's related to this incident because one of the women because there were four allegedly the popular women who gifted who tried to get themselves to the Prophet was OMA sharika dosia and it was Allah bent hacking and and then they say some people said they were two others

may Moon have been tell hadith and all misaki insane now these two the latter two are women that the Prophet married some people say they gifted themselves and then the Prophet married them some people say they they aren't from the gifted ones they're just regular women he just approached and proposed himself but the first two the Prophet didn't marry them so the question here was there were a number of things one objection that people Hall were wider than the Prophet have to give maja if he wanted why is he allowed to do this why does even have this option there's a debate whether the Prophet ever accepted

a woman who said look I give myself to you will you accept me as a wife this meant by the way as a wife but will you you don't need to give me any maja did the Prophet ever accept any woman who said that there's a debate many people say there's only two women who said that to the prophet and he never accepted either of them they are the popular ones or Oh Michele ich is one dosia and whole event Hakeem and she's the one when I she said what's wrong with women don't they have any shame that they present themselves to men like that the other two main muna who was married to the Prophet and enormous are keen was zeyneb who was married to the Prophet there's a debate whether they

also came to the prophet and said or did the proposed to them but even if we let's accept that they said and the Prophet accepted them right this thing of gift like oh I don't want a maha from you look most Muslims many Muslim scholars accept that if a wife was to say first of all I don't want anything from you that that is enough in itself in the hadith when the the one woman presents herself to privatise look marry you know marry me I give I'll give myself to you

and the Prophet doesn't want to marry her and a person says like you know would she be prepared to marry me and he asked the prophet and the Prophet asked then she obviously realizes the Prophet wasn't going to marry and she says ok I'll marry him and the Prophet says to him you must gift her something and then he says oh but I haven't got anything in prophecies go find a ring Altemus well o haughty man I mean hadith and and he goes and he looks and he does any couldn't find son any struggles and the whole point is it begins with this kind of strand the Prophet says okay can you at least teach her something from the

Quran as a gift and he says ok LT and the prophecy is ok fine use that as a gift then knowledge let knowledge be the gift you see why wasn't this gift allowed to just be abandoned for all men because in the society where this came you have to remember it was a very patriarchal society and certain men may have manipulated that to their advantage to exploit women that in saying look well you know look you need to get married but oh you're not allowed to ask me to give you a gift or you're not and this was obviously it was inauspicious it was obviously an occasion a

celebratory occasion and a mandatory gift was necessary that was the general custom that was what they had to do so this is why it's made mandatory for men in general but we people are struggling even for them that many scholars have said the gift could be the gift of knowledge it doesn't like if you don't have financial me so if the woman says I don't want something that's fine many Ottoman have said that in the books it's not but why the Prophet was allowed to say well from the offset if a woman was saying that well that you see because from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

perspective if a woman was to say to him look I don't want any and she was to say in public I don't want anything from you I'm giving myself to you will you accept me did if the Prophet accepted her the chance of the Prophet exploiting her from an Islamic perspective we don't believe that the Prophet was going to exploit them now somebody could argue that well oh he's a human he's this he's that they could argue that the first point would be which woman did he actually even accept because the two popular occasions are those women on machete a dosia who he does not marry and what is it and you've got Halle Mint

Hakeem who he does not marry so which incidents are we even talking about but yes if the Prophet accepted her fine Allah says in the Quran that if a woman was to say this if in Aradhana being is thanking her if he wanted to marry her this is challah for the Prophet being a prophet of God but for people in general let them give a gift now remember this is if a woman herself is in Ibrahim Amina water but NASA halyna be she is saying I don't want something I just want to marry you so that's so this there's no exploitation here you know people say oh my god how

come the Prophet gets away with there was nothing first of all there wasn't even a single established incident that the Prophet in the two cases of my Munna and zina malmö sake they were already women from any step established background they won't kind of poor or anything like this now some people have said oh they said this and other people said no the Prophet proposed to them so they're not even the famous sins and the famous incidents of the first two who the Prophet marries neither and this verse was simply saying that if you do accept it's permissible it doesn't mean you had to have done it just as it says you can marry from your paternal aunt your paternal uncle your maternal aunt Mirta

the Prophet our marry from all of these didn't marry from all of them like that so just because it was made halal it didn't mean that the Prophet did it okay this was just saying Allah was saying that these things are not forbidden in essence no any woman that agrees with a man and even most like I said many scholars will say if she said I don't want something and the guy was fine with that I mean the guy probably would be fine with that but if she wanted that then that's fine many scholars accept that anyway but what they say is that oh but she has to let him at least offer

he must offer something now that's in general to express that kind of that community spirit I suppose right so I hope that makes some sense the thing I wanted to add here was it goes on to say about the Prophet that you are not allowed after today to marry any other women beyond what you've already married unless they came through slavery now that's an interesting option because he allowed that if you had an opportunity

to free a woman through marriage then that will always be permissible in that context obviously slavery Islam had hinged it to become Haram anyway with the day and age that once it would reach society would reach a certain stages it would become Haram and many of the great Maliki scholars have written about that as well including chef Ahmed Baba I believe Timbuktu from Timbuktu who wrote on that a few hundred years ago as one so but this point see like now most Muslim men are always allowed to marry and remarry and they're allowed to do

that but the Prophet wasn't after that that was it he was told in that verse that this is it it's a different story if your wives were to die and you could marry but you can't generally divorce and marry afresh that's the understanding of many scholars and he was results and he was told that the and some people say he was allowed to only marry those who had hi Jarrah if he was to marry but the general understanding is that he wasn't allowed to marry anymore that focus on the actual mission so if people were to say that let's say somebody was to say that the Quran was the Prophet saying

this is revelation in his own favor like he's trying to manipulate the laws to to exploit people if people are saying this why on earth would the Prophet inhibit himself why would he say you're not allowed to marry after today and you know to - why would eat why would he say this that this is that makes zero sense he just be tying himself like why not they they because if they arguing oh he was after women why not allow that option rather he says lie and verse 52 liya hello la condesa

remembered that that that you have married these women they we have made them halal don't listen to their objections don't listen to this propaganda ignore the noise and chaos it is halal but what you have married you have married and there will be no more unica's unless a woman unless they had died or something which they didn't in that sense and the Prophet didn't marry after that why play such an imposition on himself if this was the Prophet pulling it out of thin air it makes zero

sense so I think these verses yes when they have read in certain lights and in certain context and people are presenting them and the emphasizing certain words as opposed to the whole narrative so they're emphasizing oh look it says what the what came to you what was given to you the right hand possesses all slaves slaves but we did the Prophet show me when the Prophet had these thing which female slaves did here which are you talking about this was talking about mario kappa tia and he married her and just because oh if a

woman was to give herself to the Prophet he but which woman did he marry like that and just because it mentions it doesn't mean that did it right so so it doesn't mean that he actually and just as it mentions Mary you put it you can marry your paternal arms daughters of your paternity now you put up daughters of your paternal on daughters of your paternal uncle's daughters of your maternal arms and daughters I think these are hollow they're not Haram that's what it's saying he didn't marry like each one of them so just because it's showing parameters it's not saying you must do

this I think that is very important to explain and I want to explain that so it's