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[Insaan]

Assalam alaykum

If a man wants to take a second wife does he need his first wife's permission to do so?

[KamranAli]

Salamun Alaykum
The second marriage is not conditional upon consent of the first wife, except in the case of marriage with the wife’s niece (her brother’s daughter, or sister’s daughter). But, if the wife [stipulates], as a condition of the marriage, that her husband cannot marry another woman and if after the marriage, the husband does not act upon this condition and remarries, then he has committed a sin.

مسألة 333: إذا اشترطت الزوجة على الزوج في عقد النكاح أو في غيره أن لا يتزوّج عليها صحّ الشرط ويلزم الزوج العمل به، ولكن لو تزوّج صحّ زواجه وإن كان آثماً.
https://www.sistani.org/arabic/book/16/873/