How Many Women is a Muslim man allowed to marry?

Question

Can one marry up to 86 wives?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7547148.stm

This is crazy......Also claiming he is the next prophet idk

Answer 1

oh my!  how can he support all these women and children?  I know it wouldn't be my choice to live that way.. but who am i to judge.  Allah knows best

Answer 2

A man is allowed to marry 4 but he has to do justice to all of them. If he cannot do that then he is allowed only one. The woman also has to give free consent. If she does not give consent then there can be no marriage.  

Answer 3

Good Lord....that is just sickening.

One of the wives said:

"I am now the happiest woman on earth. When you marry a man with 86 wives you know he knows how to look after them, "

Give me  break.

They are far from Islam.

Nimmy: it takes $915 to feed them per day....oh my God......that is expensive...

Answer 4

Wahabis have like dozens of wifes. Muslim mens are only allowed 4. But if you live in a country that makes that illegal you gotta follow the rules

Answer 5

Even in the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) he told his companion to only have four wives and in the Qur'an it also says have one, two, three or four wives.

The Qur'an is also the only religious scripture in the world that says, "Marry only one". But men have been permitted more than wives, for reasons such as providing security, shelter to women etc

Answer 6

Oh dear... what a messed up extremist.

You can marry up to 4 women, and only if you can treat them all equaly and have the permission of the first wives.

Also the reason isn't that it's good to have 4 wives to suit your needs, it's was just a limit to how many we can marry as men would marry many women in that time.

Next in line to prophet Muhammed? haha yeah sure !

Answer 7

lol

only 4 !

Answer 8

Four

He must treat each of them with EQUAL respect and care.

He MUST have consent from his wife to wed another.

Answer 9

4 but poligomy is not good in todays society!

Good God!

Im suprised he didnt get an STD!

Answer 10

This guy was in our newspapers too. The article said though that he has to divorce 82 of his wives by court order. He has 4 days to decide which  4wives he wants to stay married to and to dicorce the rest. If he does not divorce them, he'll be sentenced to death by stoning.

Edit: see also this BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/757475...

Answer 11

I've read that a Muslim man can marry 4 wives BUT with only the permission from the first wife.  

I don't know why a man would want that many wives. YIKES! lol

I believe in one man, one woman = one love.

Answer 12

1  married

2  married

3  married

4  married

                                 than

married divorce

married divorce

married divorce

and its continue till death  

Answer 13

I don't know what to say. My Gosh. It's shocking. May Allah be with all of us.

I agree with Serenity.

Answer 14

as-salaam alaikum

Have you actually spoken to this brother and checked that this is true?

Or are you content to make gheebah and slander because you read about a Muslim in the media?

Do you think the media is truthful? That journalists dont lie?

Allah says 49:6

"O ye who believe! If an corrupt person brings you news, verify it, lest ye smite some folk in ignorance and afterward repent of what ye did. "

(٥) يَـٰٓأَيُّہَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِن جَآءَكُمۡ فَاسِقُۢ بِنَبَإٍ۬ فَتَبَيَّنُوٓاْ أَن تُصِيبُواْ قَوۡمَۢا بِجَهَـٰلَةٍ۬ فَتُصۡبِحُواْ عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلۡتُمۡ نَـٰدِمِينَ

Answer 15

the authorities are correct.  It is a cult.

Answer 16

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah

I read that article, too.  Sounds like a really mixed-up dude and some really ignorant, mixed-up women.  May Allah give them hedayah.

Fi Aman Allah,

Nancy Umm Abdel Hamid

Answer 17

This is absolutely RIDICULOUS

a muslim man is allowed up to 4 wives.

but in this country bigomy is illegal

Answer 18

OMG this man seems deluded, he has 86 wives so much younger than him too!! He claims he speaks to the Prophet (saw) too!! Ya Allah! The people in this world are indeed crazy!!!!  

Answer 19

"The former teacher and Muslim preacher, who lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children, says he is able to cope only with the help of God. "

Sick prvert "muslims" like him spoil names of real muslims..Please somebody go kill him instead of giving publicity..

"I don't go looking for them, they come to me. I will consider the fact that God has asked me to do it and I will just marry them." "..geeeeeez he thinks he is kamadeva,ugly man..

"Mr Bello Abubakar and his wives do not work and he has no visible means of supporting such a large family.



Many of the wives live three to a room, some have seven children

He refuses to say how he makes enough money to pay for the huge cost of feeding and clothing so many people"

ROFL..i just can't stop laughing..

Allah sents bags of rice for every meal..H ahbahabhabahaha

I wonder what makes people here tell "Allah knows best"...

Oh my Allah,nore intersting stuff down the article

"According to one of his wives, Mr Bello Abubakar sometimes asks his children to go and beg for 200 naira ($1.69, £0.87), which if they all did so would bring in about $290 (£149).

Most of his wives live in a squalid, unfinished house in Bida; others live in his house in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.

He refuses to allow any of his family or other devotees to take medicine and says he does not believe that malaria exists"

loooooooooooooooooool..

Sara,you made my day..my stomach paining after such a great laugh..

Allah,save us from these sick people...

sorry i can't stop laughing

Answer 20

Muslim men can marry up to 4 wives... but they have to have their wife permission to get married to another.

Answer 21

..... That stupid person doesot even know islam  :S

The Qur’an is the only religious scripture in the world that says,"marry only one".

The Qur’an is the only religious book, on the face of this earth, that contains the phrase ‘marry only one’. There is no other religious book that instructs men to have only one wife. In none of the other religious scriptures, whether it be the Vedas, the Ramayan, the Mahabharat, the Geeta, the Talmud or the Bible does one find a restriction on the number of wives. According to these scriptures one can marry as many as one wishes. It was only later, that the Hindu priests and the Christian Church restricted the number of wives to one.

Many Hindu religious personalities, according to their scriptures, had multiple wives. King Dashrat, the father of Rama, had more than one wife. Krishna had several wives.

In earlier times, Christian men were permitted as many wives as they wished, since the Bible puts no restriction on the number of wives. It was only a few centuries ago that the Church restricted the number of wives to one.

Polygyny is permitted in Judaism. According to Talmudic law, Abraham had three wives, and Solomon had hundreds of wives. The practice of polygyny continued till Rabbi Gershom ben Yehudah (95% C.E to 1030 C.E) issued an edict against it. The Jewish Sephardic communities living in Muslim countries continued the practice till as late as 1950, until an Act of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel extended the ban on marrying more than one wife.

3.  Hindus are more polygynous than Muslims

The report of the ‘Committee of The Status of Woman in Islam’, published in 1975 mentions on page numbers 66 and 67 that the percentage of polygamous marriages between the years 1951 and 1961 was 5.06% among the Hindus and only 4.31% among the Muslims. According to Indian law only Muslim men are permitted to have more than one wife. It is illegal for any non-Muslim in India to have more than one wife. Despite it being illegal, Hindus have more multiple wives as compared to Muslims. Earlier, there was no restriction even on Hindu men with respect to the number of wives allowed. It was only in 1954, when the Hindu Marriage Act was passed that it became illegal for a Hindu to have more than one wife. At present it is the Indian Law that restricts a Hindu man from having more than one wife and not the Hindu scriptures.

Let us now analyse why Islam allows a man to have more than one wife.

4.   Qur’an permits limited polygyny

As I mentioned earlier, Qur’an is the only religious book on the face of the earth that says ‘marry only one’. The context of this phrase is the following verse from Surah Nisa of the Glorious Qur’an:

"Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one."

                                  [Al-Qur’an 4:3]

Before the Qur’an was revealed, there was no upper limit for polygyny and many men had scores of wives, some even hundreds. Islam put an upper limit of four wives. Islam gives a man permission to marry two, three or four women, only on the condition that he deals justly with them.

In the same chapter i.e. Surah Nisa verse 129 says:

"Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women...."

                                 [Al-Qur’an 4:129]

Therefore polygyny is not a rule but an exception. Many people are under the misconception that it is compulsory for a Muslim man to have more than one wife.

Broadly, Islam has five categories of Do’s and Don’ts:

   1.

      ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â˜Fard’ i.e. compulsory or obligatory

   2.

      ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â˜Mustahab’ i.e. recommended or encouraged

   3.

      ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â˜Mubah’ i.e. permissible or allowed

   4.

      ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â˜Makruh’ i.e. not recommended or discouraged

   5.

      ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â˜Haraam’ i.e. prohibited or forbidden

Polygyny falls in the middle category of things that are permissible. It cannot be said that a Muslim who has two, three or four wives is a better Muslim as compared to a Muslim who has only one wife.

5.  Average life span of females is more than that of males

By nature males and females are born in approximately the same ratio. A female child has more immunity than a male child. A female child can fight the germs and diseases better than the male child. For this reason, during the pediatric age itself there are more deaths among males as compared to the females.

During wars, there are more men killed as compared to women. More men die due to accidents and diseases than women. The average life span of females is more than that of males, and at any given time one finds more widows in the world than widowers.

World female population is more than male population

In the USA, women outnumber men by 7.8 million. New York alone has one million more females as compared to the number of males, and of the male population of New York one-third are g**s i.e sodomites. The U.S.A as a whole has more than twenty-five million g**s. This means that these people do not wish to marry women. Great Britain has four million more females as compared to males. Germany has five million more females as compared to males. Russia has nine million more females than males. God alone knows how many million more females there are in the whole world as compared to males.

8.   Restricting each and every man to have only one wife is not practical

Even if every man got married to one woman, there would still be more than thirty million females in U.S.A who would not be able to get husbands (considering that America has twenty five million g**s). There would be more than four million females in Great Britain, 5 million females in Germany and nine million females in Russia alone who would not be able to find a husband.

Suppose my sister happens to be one of the unmarried women living in USA, or suppose your sister happens to be one of the unmarried women in USA. The only two options remaining for her are that she either marries a man who already has a wife or becomes public property. There is no other option. All those who are modest will opt for the first.

In Western society, it is common for a man to have mistresses and/or multiple extra-marital affairs, in which case, the woman leads a disgraceful, unprotected life. The same society, however, cannot accept a man having more than one wife, in which women retain their honourable, dignified position in society and lead a protected life.

Thus the only two options before a woman who cannot find a husband is to marry a married man or to become public property. Islam prefers giving women the honourable position by permitting the first option and disallowing the second.

There are several other reasons, why Islam has permitted limited polygyny, but it is mainly to protect the modesty of women.

Answer 22

4 if he can treat them all fairly and equally.  No 86 is haraam.  Most men marry one.  If they fear they can't be just to all their women, then they should only marry 1.  If a Muslim man is Polygamous, at most he has 2 wives.  And nowhere in my Arabic/English translation of the Qur'an have I read, that a man needs his wife/wives permission to get married again.

Answer 23

lol

he is dum

anyway a man is allowed to marry 4  

Answer 24

The Qur’an is the only religious book, on the face of this earth, that contains the phrase ‘marry only one’. There is no other religious book that instructs men to have only one wife. In none of the other religious scriptures, whether it be the Vedas, the Ramayan, the Mahabharat, the Geeta, the Talmud or the Bible does one find a restriction on the number of wives. According to these scriptures one can marry as many as one wishes. It was only later, that the Hindu priests and the Christian Church restricted the number of wives to one.

Many Hindu religious personalities, according to their scriptures, had multiple wives. King Dashrat, the father of Rama, had more than one wife. Krishna had several wives.

As I mentioned earlier, Qur’an is the only religious book on the face of the earth that says ‘marry only one’. The context of this phrase is the following verse from Surah Nisa of the Glorious Qur’an:

"Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one."

                                  [Al-Qur’an 4:3]

Before the Qur’an was revealed, there was no upper limit for polygyny and many men had scores of wives, some even hundreds. Islam put an upper limit of four wives. Islam gives a man permission to marry two, three or four women, only on the condition that he deals justly with them.

In the same chapter i.e. Surah Nisa verse 129 says:

"Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women...."

                                 [Al-Qur’an 4:129]

  Average life span of females is more than that of males

By nature males and females are born in approximately the same ratio. A female child has more immunity than a male child. A female child can fight the germs and diseases better than the male child. For this reason, during the pediatric age itself there are more deaths among males as compared to the females.

During wars, there are more men killed as compared to women. More men die due to accidents and diseases than women. The average life span of females is more than that of males, and at any given time one finds more widows in the world than widowers.

   World female population is more than male population

In the USA, women outnumber men by 7.8 million. New York alone has one million more females as compared to the number of males, and of the male population of New York one-third are g**s i.e sodomites. The U.S.A as a whole has more than twenty-five million g**s. This means that these people do not wish to marry women. Great Britain has four million more females as compared to males. Germany has five million more females as compared to males. Russia has nine million more females than males. God alone knows how many million more females there are in the whole world as compared to males.

   Restricting each and every man to have only one wife is not practical

Even if every man got married to one woman, there would still be more than thirty million females in U.S.A who would not be able to get husbands (considering that America has twenty five million g**s). There would be more than four million females in Great Britain, 5 million females in Germany and nine million females in Russia alone who would not be able to find a husband.

Suppose my sister happens to be one of the unmarried women living in USA, or suppose your sister happens to be one of the unmarried women in USA. The only two options remaining for her are that she either marries a man who already has a wife or becomes public property. There is no other option. All those who are modest will opt for the first.

In Western society, it is common for a man to have mistresses and/or multiple extra-marital affairs, in which case, the woman leads a disgraceful, unprotected life. The same society, however, cannot accept a man having more than one wife, in which women retain their honourable, dignified position in society and lead a protected life.

Thus the only two options before a woman who cannot find a husband is to marry a married man or to become public property. Islam prefers giving women the honourable position by permitting the first option and disallowing the second.

There are several other reasons, why Islam has permitted limited polygyny, but it is mainly to protect the modesty of women.

Answer 25

Haha, i know.

Maximum 4. Period.

Answer 26

100 percent cult