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- The Prophetic Era
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Summary
By blood, a paternal aunt's son is the male blood child of a blood paternal aunt, whether she is a sister of the father by both parents, by the father alone or by the mother alone. By fostering, he is the son of the father's foster sister. Without qualification the word means the blood relation. 1
General ruling
The jurists agree that he is among those with blood-ties through a female who are not mahrams: the duty of kinship applies to him, he may marry his maternal cousin, and maintenance is not due from him unless he is an heir, with differences and detail on this. 1
Where it is discussed
The jurists treat his rules in inheritance, the funeral prayer, marriage and maintenance, and the detail is in the entry on kinship (arham). 1
People and things also explored
Taj Mahal· Abawan (the two parents)· Justice among co-wives· Obstructing a marriage (adl): the guardian and the husband· Fleshy growth in the wife's womb and the right to annul (afal)· Ahl al-Nasab (the kin by descent, and who counts as kin in bequests and endowments)· Akdariyya (a named inheritance case)· Brother (full, paternal and maternal) in law
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.1465
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islam.museum contributors. “Paternal aunt's son”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/ibn-al-amma/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-28.