[178]. Chap. iv., vv. 26, 27.
[179]. By the Hanafee code, a man may not marry a woman from whose breast he has received a single drop of milk; but Esh-Sháfe’ee does not prohibit the marriage unless he has been suckled by her five times in the course of the first two years.
[180]. A boy may be thus married; but he may divorce his wife.
[181]. Whatever property the wife receives from her husband, parents, or any other person, is entirely at her own disposal, and not subject to any claim of her husband or his creditors.
[182]. Kur-án, chap. ii., vv. 229, 230.
[183]. As the Mosaic law also allows. See Deut. xxiv. 1.
[184]. The witnesses must always be Muslims in accusations against a person of the same faith.
[185]. Yet many Christians and Jews in Egypt infringe the law in this respect with impunity.
[186]. In this the Muslim law differs from the Mosaic, which assigns a double portion to the first-born son. See Deut. xxi. 17.
[187]. In my summary of the principal laws relating to inheritance, in the former editions of this work, there were some errors, occasioned by my relying too much upon Sale’s version of the Kur-án; for I doubted not his accuracy, as he had several commentaries to consult, and I had none; wherefore, in my inquiries respecting these laws, I sought only to add to, not to correct, the information conveyed by his version. I have here given a corrected statement, derived from the Kur-án and the Commentary of the Geláleyn, supplying some words of necessary explanation (which are enclosed in brackets) partly on the authority of a sheykh who was my tutor, and partly from the valuable work of D’Ohsson, “Tableau Général de l’Empire Othoman,” Code Civil, livre iv.