Ruling on those who try to breakup the families:

بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد

Ruling on those who try to breakup the families, either it be between husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter etc.:

Question: Is it permissible for the husband to prevent his wife from maintaining bonds with her kinship, especially her mother and father?

Answer: Maintaining ties of kinship is Waajib (an obligatory act), and it is not permissible for the husband to prevent his wife from doing so; because severing bonds of kinship is from the major sins. And it is not permissible for the wife to obey her husband in this regards, because there is no obedience to the creation in disobedience to the Creator. Rather she should maintain ties of kinship through her personal wealth, correspondences and visits to them; except when such visits would be damaging the rights of the husband. If the husband fears that her close relatives would instigate her against him, then he has the rights to prevent her from visiting them. So in this case she should maintain her ties of kinship without visiting them.

[Shaikh Saleh al-Fawzaan – فتاوى علماء البلد الحرام ص 1397]

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Question: What is the ruling on someone who tries to provoke the spouses against each other, if they are from among the wife's relatives?

Answer: It is Haraam to provoke a wife or turn her against her husband, whether the one who does this is a relative or not. It was related by Al-Nasa'y, Abu Dawud, and Ibn Hibban on the authority of Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Anyone who incites a woman against her husband or a slave against his master is not one of us.”* This is the wording of Abu Dawood.

May Allaah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.

Member - Shaikh `Abdullaah al-Ghudayyaan

Deputy Chairman – Shaikh `Abdul Razzaaq `Afifiy

Chairman – Shaikh `Abdul `Azeez ibn `Abdullaah Ibn Baaz.

[Fataawa Lajnah (10726)]

*[Sunan Abu Dawood (2175 and 5170) and graded as Saheeh by Shaikh al-Albaanee in al-Saheehah (324, 325)]