Intermediate Marriage Surah: Al-Hujurat (13)

Verse: "O people, We created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another — indeed the most noble of you before Allah is the most righteous of you." (49:13)

Definition: The husband being compatible with the wife in qualities that affect the continuation of marriage and good cohabitation.

Scholarly views:

• Majority (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Hanbali): Compatibility is a condition for contract validity absent consent — includes: religion, freedom, lineage, occupation, wealth.
• Maliki: Compatibility in religion only — lineage and wealth are not considered.
• Dhahiri: No lineage-based compatibility at all — the verse explicitly states that honour is by piety, not lineage.

Strongest view: Sharia-recognised compatibility is in religion and character — from the hadith "If one comes whose religion and character you approve, marry him." (Tirmidhi 1084 — hasan). Lineage and wealth compatibility are considered interests, not absolute conditions.

Source: Al-Qurtubi (16/342); Al-Mughni (7/27); Tirmidhi (1084); Ibn Qudama, Al-Kafi (3/20)

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