al-Baqarah 2:235; al-Furqan 25:54. see also POLYGAMY

• adultery, bani Isra'il 17:32

  • evidence required (four witnesses), an-Nur 24:4

  • false accuser's punishment, an-Nur 24:4,19,23

    • never believe their testimony afterwards, an-Nur 24:4
      * Mistah, Hassan and Hamnah is said to falsely accuse 'Aisha of infidelity, refered to in an-Nur 24:4.

    • repentence, an-Nur 24:5

  • forbidden, bani Isra'il 17:32; al-Furqan 25:68

  • if there aren't four witnesses, an-Nur 24:6-9

  • marriage after, an-Nur 24:3

  • punishment for, an-Nur 24:2

  • repentence, an-Nisa' 4:16

• appoint arbiter from among you when fearing a breach, an-Nisa' 4:35

• cannot marry forster siblings (those who suckled at the same nurse), Sahih Bukhari 1.88

• complaints, al-Mujadilah 58:1

• don't hold wives against their will, an-Nisa' 4:19
  * Interestingly, the wives of Muhammad were not allowed to remarry. al-Ahzab 33:53.

• dowry, an-Nisa' 4:4,19-21,24-25; al-Ma'idah 5:5; al-Mumtahanah 60:10-11

  • other mutually agreed arrangements, an-Nisa' 4:24

  • woman may return it, an-Nisa' 4:4

• forbidden degrees of, an-Nur 24:32

  • to certain kin, an-Nisa' 4:22-24

  • to non-believers, al-Baqarah 2:221; al-Ma'idah 5:5; al-Mumtahanah 60:10

• fornication forbidden, an-Nisa' 4:24-25,27; al-Ma'idah 5:5

• if unable, an-Nur 24:33

• if woman fears mistreatment from her husband, an-Nisa' 4:128

• love (mawaddah) and tenderness, ar-Rum 30:21

• of fugitives, al-Mumtahanah 60:10

• part-time marriages, see newspaper report

• polygamy, an-Nisa' 4:3

  • restrictions about, an-Nisa' 4:3

  • warning against, an-Nisa' 4:129

• recline with spouses in Paradise, Ya Sin 36:56; al-Mu'min 40:8; az-Zukhruf 43:70

• spouses are raiment for each other, al-Baqarah 2:187

• the Prophet's, al-Ahzab 33:50

• to adopted son's ex-wife is permitted, al-Ahzab 33:37

• to man who doesn't ascribe divinity to aught besides God, al-Baqarah 2:221

• to orphans, an-Nisa' 4:3

• to single woman only, an-Nisa' 4:24

• to slave

  • and among slaves, an-Nur 24:32

  • woman if need arises, an-Nisa' 4:3,25

    • better if men don't marry, an-Nisa' 4:25

    • even if she's married before being captured, an-Nisa' 4:24

    • punishment only half of free women's if immoral, an-Nisa' 4:25

• to unmarried only, an-Nur 24:32

• to women believing in previous revelation, al-Ma'idah 5:5

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