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The Gravedigger's Wife

زوجة حفار القبور

The Gravedigger's Wife.

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At a glance

Identifiers
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Review
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The poor and the workerFamily, marriage and kinshipHealth, body and death

Screening Room

Format
Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released
2021 CE · 1442 AH†
Countries
SO · FR · DE · FI
Languages
so (original)
Approach
drama of Muslim life
Depiction of sacred figures
The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

Overview

The first Somali film to screen at Cannes: Khadar Abdullahi's film about a gravedigger who toils to save his sick wife in Hargeisa. 1 2

People and things also explored

Fleshy growth in the wife's womb and the right to annul (afal)· The clot stage of the embryo (alaqa) and the rulings on its loss· Pregnant woman (hamil) in fiqh· Janin (the unborn child)· The death and burial of Fatima bint Muhammad· The dosing of the Prophet during his illness· The Big Sick· Cairo Station

Sources

  1. Wikidata
  2. IMDb
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islam.museum contributors. “The Gravedigger's Wife”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/zawjat-haffar-al-qubur-2021/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Fleshy growth in the wife's womb and the right to annul (afal)

In the lexicon, afal is a fleshy growth in a woman's genital passage, which arises after childbirth and not in virgins; some say it is a swelling that narrows the passage until penetration is impossible. Some jurists distinguish it from ratq, a closure from birth; both are defects that give an option to end the marriage. The Malikis and Hanbalis hold that it gives the husband an option to annul the marriage, since it defeats the marriage's main purpose; Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf hold that neither spouse has such an option. The Shafi'is count ratq and qaran, another closure, as defects peculiar to women that give the option.