Combined marriage

Definition

This form of marriage, according to a Hadith narration attributed to Aisha:

This form of marriage was outlawed by Islam, which requires that any man and woman be married prior to sexual intercourse. In addition, Islam requires that the identity of the father be known, in turn prohibiting a woman from having sexual intercourse with more than one man, her husband.

History

Controversial Muslim sources claim [Muawiya I was conceived in a marriage of this type, and Abu Sufyan acknowledged paternity after receiving compensation. There are contradictory sources regarding if he was in the list of people believed to be Muawiya's father.

The Mu'tazili scholar Ibn Abu al-Hadid included in his Sharh Ibn al Hadeed the following:

:''"Mu'awiya wrote a letter to Ziyad, the contents of which included the words 'O son of Sumayya'. Ziyad replied to Mu'awiya with these words 'Mu'awiya you called me by the name of my mother Sumayya, so as to mock me, well if I am the son of Sumayya then you are 'Ibne Jamaat' as you were a product of Nikah ijtimah."--

References

References

1. "Answering-Ansar.org :: Mu'awiya".
2. See [[Abu Sufyan ibn Harb]] and [[Shi'a view of Muawiyah I]] for references.
3. Amongst the Arabs there was a tradition that if one's ancestry was questionable, then that individual would be called by their mother's name. In the same way that [[Imam Hasan]] referred to [[Marwan]] as 'Ibn Zurqa' — Mu'awiya sought to mock Ziyad by calling him the son of Sumayya.
4. "Ibne Jamaat" means "Son of a congregation".
5. Sharh Ibn al Hadeed, Volume 4, page 94 under the Chapter "Mun Kitab Ziyad Ubayya"