Is Brother-in-law a Mahram?
By Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Posted: 16 Jamad-ul-Awwal 1423, 27 July 2002
| Q.) Is the husband of a woman's sister mahram for
her? Some people say that since no two sisters can be joined with one
husband and mahram is one whom you cannot marry therefore he is mahram for
all sisters of his wife.
What I think is that the Qur'anic condition for mahram is that it is
one whom you can NEVER marry (with whom, this relation never
changes).However, in this case, wife might be divorced later on and thus
other sisters become eligible again to marry him. [Azfar Kazmi] |
A.) Rasulullah
said, '(Alhamwu al-mawt) Brother-in-law is death.'
The above Hadith is clear that there should be Hijaab between the sister's
husband.
Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Albalagh Note: Your argument is valid. Amplifying it Maulana Ashiq Ilahi
Bulandshahri writes that if current ineligibility of marriage were the basis
for declaring mahrams, then all men would become mahrams for all married women
in the world.