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Asalaam-O-Alaikum I am getting married in few months..My question is do husband and wife have to have sex the first night? I have heard that if you dont have the intercorse fist night of your marriage, you're commiting a sin and u can't celebrate walima, is that true? May allah bless you for leading us muslims to the right path
Answer
Praise be to Allah.
What you have heard - that it is obligatory to have intercourse on the first
night of marriage - is not correct at all. Not having intercourse on that night
is not a sin, and does not prevent one from celebrating the waleemah
(wedding feast). Whatever happens between the two partners on their
wedding night is their concern alone, and they know best what will suit their
own personalities. This is a good opportunity to remind Muslim men and
women of the importance of verifying whatever they hear, and to warn
them not to accept Islamic rulings from people who are not qualified to
give them. We ask Allaah to help us learn that which will benefit us, and to
benefit us from that which we learn.
Source: IslamQA (Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid)