Ruling on doing weddings in the mosque and always starting with recitation of Quraan and exhortation

 

 

Ruling on doing weddings in the mosque and always starting with recitation of Quraan and exhortation

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What is the ruling on always doing weddings in the mosques, and having a specific format such as reciting Qur’aan at the beginning, then giving a speech, then doing the marriage contract at the end?.

 

Praise be to Allaah.

Firstly: 

The majority of fuqaha’ are of the view that it is mustahabb
to do the marriage contract in the mosque, and they quoted as evidence for
that the hadeeth: “Announce the marriage and do it in the mosque and beat
daffs for that.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1089), but it is da’eef (weak) –
except the part about announcing the marriage – as al-Albaani said in
Da’eef al-Tirmidhi. 

It says in Majma’ al-Anhar (1/317): It is mustahabb to
do the marriage contract in the mosque, and to do it on a Friday, but they
differed as to whether it is makrooh to hold the wedding party there. The
best view is that it is not makrooh if it does not involve anything that is
detrimental to religious practice. End quote. 

Al-Khorashi said in Sharh Khaleel (7/71): i.e., it is
permissible to do the marriage contract (in the mosque), i.e., the proposal
and response, rather that is mustahabb. End quote. 

And it says in Nihaayat al-Muhtaaj (6/185): It is
Sunnah to get married in Shawwaal, to consummate the marriage in (Shawwaal),
to do the marriage contract in the mosque, to do it before a group of people
and to do it at the beginning of the day. End quote. 

It says in Kashshaaf al-Qinaa’ (2/368): It is
permissible to do the marriage contract in (the mosque), rather it is
mustahabb as was mentioned by some of our companions. End quote. 

Secondly: 

When doing the marriage contract in the mosque it is
essential that this does not result in any disrespect towards the mosque or
doing any reprehensible deeds therein, such as beating the daff, and no
nasheeds should be sung therein. Rather the marriage contract is enough, but
if any Qur’aan is read or a speech is given, there is nothing wrong with
that, but that should not always be done, because there is no evidence for
reading Qur’aan in wedding parties or at other times, and some of the
scholars regarded that as an innovation (bid’ah). 

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaaq ‘Afeefi (may Allaah have mercy on him)
was asked about the ruling on reading Qur’aan out loud in parties and
gatherings such as wedding parties: is this an innovation? 

He replied: It is an innovation to begin gatherings
officially with recitation of Qur’aan, because there is no text concerning
that, so it should not be taken as a custom, but it is permissible to do it
sometimes. I had a disagreement with the Council of Senior Scholars when
they opened meetings with the recitation of Qur’aan. I said: This is an
innovation. This was not done by the Messenger (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him), whose gatherings were many, and he is the leader whose
example is to be followed. But if there is a speech which includes some
verses of Qur’aan, there is nothing wrong with that. End quote from
Fataawa wa Rasaa’il al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaaq al-‘Afeefi, p. 621. 

And Allaah knows best.