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Cursing One’s Children or Wife

Question: 10102

What is the ruling on one who curses his wife or one of his children? Does cursing one’s wife count as divorce or not?

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

Cursing one’s wife is not permitted, and it is not a divorce; she still
remains married to him and he has to repent to Allah for it and seek the
forgiveness of the one whom he has cursed.  Similarly, it is not permitted
for him to curse his children or anyone else among the Muslims, because the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Trading insults
with a Muslim is evildoing and fighting him is kufr (disbelief).” (authentic
– agreed upon). And he (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Cursing a believer is like killing him.” (al-Bukhari in his Saheeh). 

These two saheeh hadeeths (authentic narrations) indicate that a Muslim’s
cursing his brother is a major sin, so we must beware of it and restrain our
tongues from committing this awful sin. 

A woman is not divorced if her husband curses her; she is still married to
her husband, as stated above.

Source

Kitab Majmoo’ Fatawa wa Maqalat Mutanawwi’ah li al-Shaykh ibn Baz (may Allaah have mercy on him), vol. 8, p. 398

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