Iddah (waiting period)

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Iddah in fiqh is the waiting period a woman observes after divorce or widowhood before she may remarry; the Kuwaiti Fiqh Encyclopedia treats it across its chapters, from the term of the iddah to the supervening iddah and residence in the iddah home 1.

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Idda is the term a woman observes after divorce or widowhood; the Kuwaiti fiqh encyclopaedia treats it in the marriage and divorce chapters, covering the term's length, the interim idda, dwelling in the idda house, and the effect of miscarriage on it.

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Iddah is the waiting period a woman observes after divorce or widowhood; the Kuwaiti Fiqh Encyclopedia treats it across the marriage and divorce chapters 1.

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The encyclopedia examines the term of the iddah, the supervening iddah, residence in the iddah home, and the effect of miscarriage on the iddah 1.

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Muwatta 1729· Muwatta 1730· Muwatta 1731· Muwatta 1732· Muwatta 1733· Muwatta 1734· Muwatta 1735· Muwatta 1736· Muwatta 1737· Muwatta 1738· Muwatta 1739· Muwatta 1747· Muwatta 1749· Muwatta 1759
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Allusion to a proposal during the waiting period· Year-long residence of a widow as a bequest
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Divorce (talaq)

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Divorce (talaq)· Malik ibn Anas· Divorce (talaq)· Mourning of a widow (ihdad)· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari· Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi· al-Qasim ibn Muhammad

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  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3)
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Muwatta, Book of Divorce (talaq)

The Book of Divorce, fifteenth book of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997), in volume 2: 181 reports (1581–1761) in thirty-five babs, PDF pp. 59–117 of volume 2, from the irrevocable word al-batta and the words of divorce, through delegation, the oath of abstinence, zihar, khul', li'an, the divorce during illness and of slaves, the 'idda and the two arbiters, the term for a husband who does not touch his wife, the widow's 'idda and residence, the umm walad, 'azl, and mourning.