{"id":1907,"date":"2019-09-05T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:33:17","slug":"are-step-siblings-mahrams-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Are step-siblings Mahrams to each other?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Are step-siblings Mahrams to each other?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Are step-siblings Mahrams to each other? Is there a difference if they share the same parents or not? What is the ruling of Hijaab in front of them? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong>Siblings who the <strong>share the<\/strong> <strong>same mother<\/strong> (Uterine siblings), for e.g. one\u2019s mother married two husbands and she had children from both husbands, or siblings who <strong>share the<\/strong> <strong>same father<\/strong> (Consanguine siblings), for e.g. one\u2019s father married two wives and he had children from both wives, fall under ones <strong>unmarriageable kin (Mahrams). <\/strong>Observing the laws of <strong>Hijaab<\/strong> between them is <strong>not necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, siblings who <strong>don\u2019t share the same parent<\/strong> but are from previous marriages, for e.g. one\u2019s mother\/father married a second husband\/wife who had sons\/daughters from a previous marriage fall under ones <strong>marriageable kin (non-Mahrams).<\/strong> Observing the laws of <strong>Hijaab<\/strong> between them <strong>is necessary.<\/strong> <strong>(Badaai-us-Sanaai 2\/257)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are step-siblings Mahrams to each other? Q. Are step-siblings Mahrams to each other? Is there a difference if they share the same parents or not? What<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-nikah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}