Umar on Inbreeding: Discouraging marriage within close bloodlines

Ibn Abi Mulaykah reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said to the house of Al-Sa’ib, “You have become frail, so marry intelligent people unrelated to you.”

Imam al-Shafi’i said, “Whenever the people of a household do not allow their women to marry men outside of their line, there will be fools among their children.”

Source: al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr 1481

عَنْ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ لِآلِ السَّائِبِ قَدْ أَضْوَأْتُمْ فَانْكِحُوا فِي النَّوَابِغِ يَعْنِي تَزَوَّجُوا الْغَرَائِبَ

قَالَ الشَّافِعِي أَيُّمَا أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ لَمْ تَخْرُجْ نِسَاؤُهُمْ إلَى رِجَالٍ غَيْرِهِمْ كَانَ فِي أَوْلَادِهِمْ حُمْقٌ

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Abu Amina Elias
Abu Amina Elias (Justin Parrott) is an academic librarian, researcher, and translator specializing in the Quran, Hadith, and their commentaries. He is a former instructor of Islamic Creed for Mishkah University.
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