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الفتح الربانی
Fath al-Rabbani
بيان موانع النكاحExplanation of Impediments to Marriage
بَابُ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَتَحْتَه أَخْتَانِ أَوْ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَرْبَعِ وَفِيهِ الْعَدَدُ الْمُبَاحُ لِلْحُرِ وَالْعَبْدِ وَمَا خُصَّ بِهِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلمChapter: One Who Accepted Islam While Having Two Sisters or More Than Four Wives, and the Permissible Number for Free Men and Slaves, and What Was Specific to the Prophet (peace be upon him)
Hadith 7016
اُردوEn
(وَعَنْهُ مِنْ طَرِيقٍ ثَانٍ) عَنْ أَبِيهِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ وَعِنْدِي امْرَأَتَانِ أُخْتَانِ فَأَمَرَنِي النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنْ أُطَلِّقَ إِحْدَاهُمَا
(Second chain) He says: When I embraced Islam, I had two wives and they were sisters. The Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, ordered me to divorce one of them.
Brief Explanation
Benefits: … Two sisters cannot be joined together in the marriage of one man, as is stated in the command of Allah the Exalted: {وَأَنْ تَجْمَعُوْا بَیْنَ الْأُخْتَیْنِ} … “(And it is forbidden to you) that you join two sisters together.” (Surah an-Nisa: 23)
From these ahadith, it is understood that the husband may, according to his own choice, select either one; it is not a condition that he must only keep in his marriage the one whom he married first among the two sisters.
The view of Imam Abu Hanifah rahimahullah is that, in the case of two sisters, the one whom he married later will be separated, and in the case of more than four wives, those wives will be separated with whom marriage took place after the completion of the number four.
However, in the aforementioned narrations, this restriction and condition is not found; therefore, the husband has the choice—he may keep whichever one he wishes with himself.
From these ahadith, it is understood that the husband may, according to his own choice, select either one; it is not a condition that he must only keep in his marriage the one whom he married first among the two sisters.
The view of Imam Abu Hanifah rahimahullah is that, in the case of two sisters, the one whom he married later will be separated, and in the case of more than four wives, those wives will be separated with whom marriage took place after the completion of the number four.
However, in the aforementioned narrations, this restriction and condition is not found; therefore, the husband has the choice—he may keep whichever one he wishes with himself.
