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Tawheed ki amaanat seenon me hai hamare

Aasaan nahi mitaana naamo nishan hamara

Allah (the Most High) said: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ – 49:13 “O mankind, indeed We have…

Allah (the Most High) said:

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ – 49:13

“O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the noblest of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.” (Al-Hujurāt: 13)

All of this guides the students of knowledge to recognise the permissibility of marriage of a person to someone from other than his tribe, race, skin colour or social background as long as they are religious people, steadfast upon the Religion, and of course compatible for each other. The Prophet (ﷺ) said:

إِذَا أَتَاكُمْ مَنْ تَرْضَوْنَ خُلُقَهُ وَدِينَهُ فَزَوِّجُوهُ إِلاَّ تَفْعَلُوا تَكُنْ فِتْنَةٌ فِي الأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ عَرِيضٌ

“If there comes to you a man whose character and religious commitment you are pleased with, then marry your ward (daughter) to him, for if you do not, there will be fitnah in the land and widespread corruption.” (Ibn Mājah, 1967)

Examples of this nature are very numerous indeed― and they all prove that the Prophet (ﷺ) and his Companions did not care about the affair of lineage, so long as the Religion of the people was firm, steadfast and righteous.

This is further proven by the fact that the Prophet (ﷺ) married Usāmah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) who was a freed slave of the tribe of Bani Kalb to Fātimah bint Qais (may Allah be pleased with her) who was a Quraishi woman. Also, Abu Hudhayfah bin ‘Utbah bin Rabī’ah bin Abdush-Shams (may Allah be pleased with him) married off the daughter of his brother to Sālim yet she was a Quraishi woman and Sālim was a freed slave.

Likewise, Abu Bakr As-Siddīq (may Allah be pleased with him), who was a Taymī-Qurashi, married his sister off to Al-Ash’ath bin Qais (may Allah be pleased with him) who a Kindī Yemeni from the tribe of Qahtān.

Also, Abdur-Rahmān bin ‘Awf Az-Zuhrī (may Allah be pleased with him) married off his sister to Bilāl bin Rabāh the Mu’adhin (may Allah be pleased with him)― she was a Zuhrīyah, Quraishi Arab woman and Bilāl was a freed slave from Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

‘Umar bin Al-Khattāb (may Allah be pleased with him) was from the tribe of Banu ‘Adiyy and he married Umm Kalthūm bint ‘Ali bin Abī Tālib (may Allah be pleased with her) and she was from the tribe of Banu Hāshim.

The Prophet (ﷺ) was the best of the tribe of Quraish and Banu Hāshim, and he married Zaynab bint Jahsh (may Allah be pleased with her) and she was from the tribe of Bani Asad bin Khuzaymah, she was not a Quraishi woman.

He married Umm Habībah bint Abī Sufyān (may Allah be pleased with her) and Hafsah bint ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with her),
also Juwayriyah bint Al-Hārith (may Allah be pleased with her), Sawdah bint Zam’ah (may Allah be pleased with her),
Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) and ‘Ā’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her)― and they were not from the tribe of Banu Hāshim.

He also married Safiyyah bint Huyayy (may Allah be pleased with her) and she was from the Children of Israel (from a Jewish tribe of Madinah).