Dalīl al-Ṭālib - Marʿi al-Karmi - (241)

Chapter: The Legal Ruling on Defects Affecting Marriage

The defects that give either spouse the right to annul the contract fall into three categories:

Defects specific to the husband: if his penis has been severed, or his testicles removed, or he is paralyzed, the wife may annul the marriage at once. The same applies if he is impotent by his own admission or by credible testimony2, or if she asks him to swear an oath and he refuses and does not claim to have had intercourse with her. In that case, the judge grants him a period of one lunar year, counted from the day she brings the matter3 before the court. If the year passes and he has still not consummated the marriage4, she may annul it.
Defects specific to the wife: if her vagina is sealed so that no penis can enter5, if it emits a foul odor, if it is afflicted with continuously oozing sores, if she has a fistula resulting from a rupture between the two passages, or if she suffers from chronic non-menstrual bleeding.
Defects common to both spouses: insanity, even if intermittent; leprosy; vitiligo; offensive mouth odor; hemorrhoids; anal fistula6; and incontinence of urine or7 feces.

(2) In manuscript “A” the reading is “bayyina”; the same appears in manuscript “N”. (3) Manuscript “A” reads “tarafahu”. (4) Manuscript “A” has “wa lam yata’ (and he had not consummated the marriage)”. (5) Manuscript “A” gives “al-dhakar” with the definite article. Shaykh al-Islam remarks: “If the defect can be removed, annulment should not be granted, especially when it is likely to disappear quickly.” Ḥashiyat al-Rawd, 6/3389. (6) Manuscript “A” reads “al-nasu” with an undotted sīn. (7) Manuscript “A” includes the prefixed conjunction wa.

باب حكم العيوب في النكاح وأقسامها المثبتة للخيار ثلاثة: قسم يختص بالرجل وهو: كونه قد قطع ذكره أو خصيتاه أو أشل فلها الفسخ في الحال وإن كان عنينا بإقراره أو ببينة٢ أو طلبت يمينه فنكل ولم يدع وطئا أجل سنة هلالية منذ ترافعه٣ إلى الحاكم فإن مضت ولم يطأها٤ فلها الفسخ. وقسم يختص بالأنثى وهو: كون فرجها مسدودا لا يسلكه ذكر٥ أو به بخر أو قروح سيالة أو كونها فتقاء بانخراق ما بين سبيليها أو كونها مستحاضة. وقسم مشترك وهو: الجنون ولو أحيانا والجذام البرص وبخر الفم والباسور والناصور٦ واستطلاق البول أو٧ الغائط.

٢ في "أ" "بينة". وكذا في "ن". ٣ في "أ" "ترفه". ٤ في "أ" "ولم يطأ". ٥ في "أ" "الذكر" بأل التعريف. قال شيخ الإسلام: فإن كان زوال هذا العيب ممكنا فينبغي أن لا يثبت الفسخ وإذا زال عن قرب. حاشية الروض "٦/٣٣٨٩". ٦ في "أ" "الناسو" بالسين المهملة. ٧ في "أ" بالواو.