Part 3 / Book 8 — Book VIII. Of Marriage and Related Subjects
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1. The conditions of marriage (nikah). What women a man may see and to what extent.
2. The form of a legal marriage.
3. The conditions of asking (khitba) and giving in marriage; whom a man may not marry; conditions for nullity of marriage.
4. The settlement (mahr) on a wife by her husband.
5. On the wedding feast (walima).
6. On the equality of the rights of the wives and the authority of the husband.
7. On divorce for incompatibility (khul).
8. The forms of divorce (talaq).
9. On taking a wife back and the threefold divorce.
10. The oath not to cohabit (ila).
11. The temporary separation by the formula, zihar Qur. 58.
12. The form of accusation of adultery and the defence (li‘an).
13. The period during which a previously married woman cannot remarry (idda).
14. Of relations with female slaves.
15. The support and behavior of a woman, divorced or a widow; mourning.
16. Law of relationship through suckling (irda).
17. The support (nafaqa) due to a wife.
18. The support due to children and parents, slaves and domestic animals.
19. Of the custody of children (hidana).