The Importance of Marriage
Imaam Muhammad Bin Salih Al Uthaymeen On Polygamy
Among the scholars are those who say that it is befitting to marry more than one- better to marry more than one (wife) as long as a person has the financial and physical ability to fulfill their rights while seeking through it the benefits of marriage against the harms that occurs besides these benefits. This us because the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had a number of wives. Ibn Abbaas said: “The best person of this Ummah had the largest number of wives”.
However, it is well known that the Prophet did not marry wives for the purpose of fulfilling desires; rather it was for the purpose of a universal benefit, in order to be linked with every tribe. So every Arab tribe had a link to the Prophet because relations by marriage and in-laws have ties of kinship. Allah said: ‘And it is He Who has created man from water, and has appointed for him kindred by blood, and kindred by marriage’
The Marriages Of The Prophet Were For The Purpose Of Seeking A Universal Benefit
And To Safegurad The Chastity Of Women; And Not For Lust
From another angle, the prophet wanted (by way of his marriages) that those concealed actions of his that could only take placed in the houses be adopted; thus his wives took that from him and that is why many of the Sunan not (performed openly in public) were adopted from his wives. Likewise, his marriages were for the purpose of safeguarding the chastity of women and to bring solace to their hearts, as was the case with Safiyyah Bint Hayy. She was a captive during the battle of Khaybar and her father was the leader of Banu Nadr, and without a doubt she would have been heart- broken being the daughter of the leader of Banu Nadr and held as a captive. The Prophet wished to console her, so he married her. Had he desired to fulfill desires (through marriage), then his wives would not have been women who had been marriage before, except one of them (i.e. Aa’isha) because without a doubt a virgin is more admirable than a woman who had been previously married as the Messenger said to Jabir: ‘Why did you not marry a virgin, so that you might play with her and she with you, and you might amuse her and she amuse you’.
Anyhow, we say, marrying a number of wives is a good thing, but it has to be with the condition mentioned by Allah, and that is the person should be able to act justly (between his wives).
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