The Muslim family

The family in Islam is the first nucleus of society. Its building begins with the marriage contract, which the Qur'an calls a solemn covenant, and grows with children and good offspring. God made marriage a sign of His signs: repose for the soul, and affection and mercy between the spouses, and gave parents and children rights on which the home stands firm. ^{1 2}

The family rests on pillars: responsibility with justice rather than domination, the husband's maintenance of his household within his means, good companionship in fairness, and the rulings of birth, nursing and custody that the jurists treated in the books of nikah, nafaqat and custody. The households of the Prophet ﷺ and the Companions are the model Muslims look to in building their own. ^{1 3}

The Family and Marriages Browser gathers everything reported about the family — marriages, children, dwellings, livelihood, daily life and social customs — in the Qur'an, the Sunnah, the seerah and every harvested book, and reads the famous marriages from the graph's own spouse_of edges.