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 "id": "concept/inna-impotence",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "inna-impotence",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العِنّة",
  "en": "Impotence (inna) as a ground for the wife's option to end the marriage",
  "ur": "عنہ (نامردی)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "العنة في اصطلاح الفقهاء العجز عن الوطء في القبل مع سلامة الآلة، وسمي العنين لليونة في ذكره وانعطافه {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11884}. وعيب العنة يخير به الزوجة عند جمهور الفقهاء، فتطلب الفرقة، ويؤجل الحاكم الزوج سنة قمرية من يوم الترافع، اقتداء بعمر بن الخطاب {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11886} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11889}. ويحتسب الأجل إلا ما يمنع من الوطء كالحيض والصوم والمرض والحج والسفر على تفاصيل المذاهب {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11890} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11891}. وتثبت العنة بإقرار الزوج أو بيمينه أو بالبينة، ويعتبر الحاكم أو من ينوب عنه {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11888}. فإذا انقضى الأجل ولم يصل إليها خيرت، فتختار الفرقة، وقال الحنفية هي طلاق بائن، وقال الشافعية والحنابلة فسخ، وللمالكية تفصيل {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11892} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11893} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11894}. وللزوجة المهر كاملاً عند المالكية والحنفية في الجملة، وعليها العدة عند الحنفية والحنابلة والمالكية احتياطاً {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11899} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}.",
  "en": "In the jurists' usage, 'inna is the inability to have intercourse through the front passage while the organ is sound; the man is called 'anin for the softness and bending of his organ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11884}. Impotence is a defect that gives the wife the right to ask for separation, according to the majority; the judge gives the husband a lunar year from the day of the claim, after the practice of 'Umar {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11886} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11889}. The time is not counted while a lawful barrier stops intercourse, such as menstruation, fasting, sickness, pilgrimage or travel, on the detail set by each school {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11890} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11891}. Impotence is established by the husband's admission, by his oath, or by evidence before the judge; the judge or his deputy takes the decision {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11888}. If the year ends without consummation, the wife chooses; the Hanafis hold the separation is an irrevocable divorce, the Shafi'is and Hanbalis hold it an annulment, and the Malikis draw distinctions {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11892} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11893} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11894}. The wife is due the full dower according to the Malikis and, in general, the Hanafis; she observes a waiting period, which the Hanafis, Hanbalis and Malikis hold as a precaution {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11899} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "health-body-death"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «عِنّة»، ص 11884-11900 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w07-batch50"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword عِنّة complete on scan pp.11884-11900 (definition, the wife's option and the year, the counting of the year, proof, the choice and the character of separation, the dower and the waiting period). The next headword عَنوس begins on scan p.11900. Footnote citations omitted; the juristic detail is summarised"
  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العنة في اصطلاح الفقهاء العجز عن الوطء في القبل مع سلامة الآلة، وسمي العنين لليونة في ذكره وانعطافه {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11884}. وعيب العنة يخير به الزوجة عند جمهور الفقهاء، فتطلب الفرقة، ويؤجل الحاكم الزوج سنة قمرية من يوم الترافع، اقتداء بعمر بن الخطاب {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11886} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11889}. ويحتسب الأجل إلا ما يمنع من الوطء كالحيض والصوم والمرض والحج والسفر على تفاصيل المذاهب {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11890} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11891}. وتثبت العنة بإقرار الزوج أو بيمينه أو بالبينة، ويعتبر الحاكم أو من ينوب عنه {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11888}. فإذا انقضى الأجل ولم يصل إليها خيرت، فتختار الفرقة، وقال الحنفية هي طلاق بائن، وقال الشافعية والحنابلة فسخ، وللمالكية تفصيل {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11892} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11893} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11894}. وللزوجة المهر كاملاً عند المالكية والحنفية في الجملة، وعليها العدة عند الحنفية والحنابلة والمالكية احتياطاً {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11899} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/inna-impotence",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In the jurists' usage, 'inna is the inability to have intercourse through the front passage while the organ is sound; the man is called 'anin for the softness and bending of his organ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11884}. Impotence is a defect that gives the wife the right to ask for separation, according to the majority; the judge gives the husband a lunar year from the day of the claim, after the practice of 'Umar {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11886} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11889}. The time is not counted while a lawful barrier stops intercourse, such as menstruation, fasting, sickness, pilgrimage or travel, on the detail set by each school {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11890} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11891}. Impotence is established by the husband's admission, by his oath, or by evidence before the judge; the judge or his deputy takes the decision {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11888}. If the year ends without consummation, the wife chooses; the Hanafis hold the separation is an irrevocable divorce, the Shafi'is and Hanbalis hold it an annulment, and the Malikis draw distinctions {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11892} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11893} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11894}. The wife is due the full dower according to the Malikis and, in general, the Hanafis; she observes a waiting period, which the Hanafis, Hanbalis and Malikis hold as a precaution {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11899} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/inna-impotence",
    "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": "عنہ (نامردی) شوہر کے جماع سے عاجز ہونے کو کہتے ہیں، جو عورت کو علیحدگی کا حق دیتا ہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11884}۔ حاکم ایک قمری سال کی مہلت دیتا ہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11886} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11887}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/inna-impotence",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
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  "concept/afal",
  "concept/alaqa",
  "concept/hamil",
  "concept/janin",
  "event/death-of-fatima-bint-muhammad",
  "event/lidud-of-the-prophet",
  "screen/al-marad-al-kabir-2017",
  "building/taj-mahal"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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