Marrying Christians of Banu Taghlib

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) considered it disliked (makruh) to eat the slaughtered animals of the Christians of Banu Taghlib and to marry their women, and he used to say: "These people are Arabs."

Al-Hasan said: There is no harm in the slaughtered animals of Banu Taghlib and in marrying their women. They adopted a religion, and now that is their religion.

Amr bin Harim said: Jabir bin Zayd was asked about the Arab Christians: is it lawful to marry their women? He said: "They are not People of the Book; their women and their food are not lawful for the Muslims."

Ikrimah said regarding the verse of the Qur'an: "And whoever among you takes them as allies, then indeed he is of them" [Al-Ma'idah: 51]: This verse concerns the slaughtered animals of the Arab Christians and their women.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Eat the slaughtered animals of Banu Taghlib and marry their women, for Allah Almighty says: "O you who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies; they are allies of one another" [Al-Ma'idah: 51]. So even if they were not of them except through alliance, they would still be of them.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) considered it disliked (makruh) to eat the slaughtered animals of the Arab Christians and to marry their women.

Ibrahim considered it disliked (makruh) to eat the slaughtered animals of the Arab Christians and to marry their women.

Al-Hasan said: There is no harm in it.