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Wa `alaykum as-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
In this fatwa:
Yes, you can marry your stepmother’s daughter if she was born to her from a previous husband, as there is no blood relation or kinship between the two.
In his response to the question in point, Dr. Muzzammil H. Siddiqi, former President of the Islamic Society of North America, states:
Yes, it is permissible for a man to marry his stepmother’s daughter, if this daughter was born to her from a previous husband, because there is no kinship between these two young people.
This young man is not a mahram (unmarriageable) to that young girl. Allah mentioned in the Quran the women who are forbidden for marriage and then He said, {Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that you seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock…} (An-Nisa’ 4:24)
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Allah Almighty knows best.
Editor’s note: This fatwa is from Ask the Scholar’s archive and was originally published at an earlier date.