Muwatta 1499

A report that Malik transmits from Yahya ibn Sa'id from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, who said Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him) said: any man who marries a woman who has madness, leprosy or vitiligo, and then has relations with her, she has her full dowry, and that is a debt for her husband to claim from her guardian. Malik says it is a debt on her guardian only when the guardian who married her out is her father or brother, or someone who is thought to know of this condition. If the guardian is a paternal cousin, a client or a clan member who could not know, there is no debt, and the woman returns what she took of the dowry. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Marriage. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Qays al-Ansari, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab and Umar ibn al-Khattab. Built on in the chapters on marriage.