{
 "id": "concept/amma-aunt",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "amma-aunt",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العَمَّة",
  "en": "The paternal aunt ('amma): marriage bars, inheritance, custody and maintenance",
  "ur": "عمّہ (پھوپھی)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "العمة في اللغة أخت الأب، ويطلق اللفظ على عمة الأب والأجداد، والجمع عمات {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}. وقد أجمع الفقهاء على تحريم نكاح العمة من النسب ومن الرضاع، لقوله تعالى في المحرمات، ولحديث النهي عن الجمع بين المرأة وعمتها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}. وفي ميراثها خلاف، فمن قال بتوريث ذوي الأرحام ورّثها ومن منعه منعها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}. ولها حق الحضانة بعد من هو أولى منها على ترتيب الفقهاء {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}. وفي وجوب نفقتها خلاف، فالحنفية يوجبونها لذي رحم محرم، والمالكية والشافعية يوجبونها بشروط، والحنابلة يوجبونها بالإرث بقرابة الرحم عندهم، ولا تجب عند القاضي من الحنابلة {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}.",
  "en": "'Amma, the aunt, is the father's sister, and the word also covers the grandfather's sister; the plural is 'ammat {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}. The jurists agree that marriage to an aunt is forbidden by blood and by suckling, on the Qur'anic list of forbidden women and the prophetic prohibition of marrying a woman together with her aunt {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}. Her inheritance is disputed; those who admit distant kin to inheritance give her a share, and those who deny it do not {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}. She has a right to custody after those who have a prior right, following the jurists' order {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}. Her maintenance is disputed: the Hanafis require it for a relative within the forbidden degrees, the Malikis and Shafi'is require it on conditions, and the Hanbalis require it on the basis of inheritance by kinship, while al-Qadi among the Hanbalis denies it {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «عَمَّة»، ص 11844-11845 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w07-batch45"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword عَمَّة complete on scan pp.11844-11845 (lexical sense, marriage bars, inheritance of distant kin, custody, maintenance). The next page 11846 begins an index of jurists (تراجم الفقهاء) which is the person class and is not drafted here. Footnote citations omitted"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العمة أخت الأب، ويطلق اللفظ على عمة الأب والأجداد {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "نكاحها",
     "markdown": "أجمع الفقهاء على تحريم نكاح العمة من النسب والرضاع، ولا يُجمع بين المرأة وعمتها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ميراثها وحضانتها ونفقتها",
     "markdown": "ميراثها مختلف فيه تبعاً لتوريث ذوي الأرحام، وحضانتها بعد من هو أولى منها، ونفقتها مختلف فيها بين المذاهب {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مواطن البحث",
     "markdown": "تُنظر أحكام الحضانة في «حضانة»، والنفقة في «نفقة»، والإرث في «إرث» {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/amma-aunt",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "'Amma is the father's sister, and the word also covers the grandfather's sister {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Marriage",
     "markdown": "Marriage to an aunt is forbidden by blood and by suckling, and a woman may not be married together with her aunt {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Inheritance, custody and maintenance",
     "markdown": "Her inheritance depends on whether distant kin inherit; her custody comes after those with a prior right; her maintenance is disputed between the schools {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Where to look further",
     "markdown": "Custody is treated under «hadana», maintenance under «nafaqa», and inheritance under «irth» {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11845}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/amma-aunt",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عمہ باپ کی بہن کو کہتے ہیں {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نکاح",
     "markdown": "نسب اور رضاعت کی بنا پر اس سے نکاح حرام ہے، اور عورت کو اس کی پھوپھی کے ساتھ جمع کرنا منع ہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11844}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/amma-aunt",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/taj-mahal",
  "concept/abawan",
  "concept/adl-bayn-al-zawjat",
  "concept/adl-nikah",
  "concept/afal",
  "concept/ahl-al-nasab",
  "concept/akdariyya",
  "concept/akh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}