Marriage Prohibited for
sisters as Co-Wives
As opposed to the practice of the period of jahiliyyah, Islam
forbade taking two sisters as co-wives at the same time, because the
feeling of love and sisterliness which Islam wants to maintain
between sisters would be destroyed if one sister became the co-wife
of the same husband. While the Qur'an mentioned the two sisters, the
Prophet (peace be on him) added, "A man may not be married to a
woman and her paternal aunt (at the same time), nor to a woman and
her maternal aunt". (Reported by al-Bukhari and Muslim.) and he
said, "If you do this, you will sever your ties of kinship."
(Reported by Ibn Hibban.) And how could Islam permit the breaking of
such kinship ties when it places so much importance on them?
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