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Is Guardianship a Condition for the Validity of a Marriage Contract?
[Taken from Imaam ibn Rushd's "Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa-Nihayat al-Muqtasid" 'The Book of Nikah']
The jurists disagree whether guardianship is one of the conditions for the validity of marriage.  Malik, Ashhab’s narration from him, said that there is no marriage without a guardian and that it is [...]