your prayer, nor are your women married [to others], for Allah has favored you over us with Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and He placed him among you. And because marriage, in the absence of compatibility, is a disposition over the right of those who may become guardians without their permission, it is therefore invalid, just as if he had married her without her consent. It has been narrated that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: "Do not marry women except to their equals, and none shall marry them except their guardians." Al-Daraqutni narrated it, although Ibn 'Abd al-Barr said: This is weak, it has no basis, and such a report is not to be used as an argument. The second narration from Ahmad is that it is not a condition for the marriage. This is the position of the majority of scholars. Something similar has been narrated from Umar, Ibn Mas'ud, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Ubayd ibn Umayr, Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman, Ibn Sirin, Ibn 'Awn, Malik, al-Shafi'i, and the scholars of opinion (Ashab al-Ra'y); due to His saying, the Almighty: {Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you}. Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said: Abu Hudhayfah ibn Utbah ibn Rabi'ah adopted Salim, and married him to his niece, Hind bint al-Walid ibn Utbah, and he was a mawla to a woman from the Ansar. Al-Bukhari extracted it. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered Fatimah bint Qays to marry Usamah ibn Zayd, his mawla, and she married him by his command. It is agreed upon. And his father, Zayd ibn Harithah, married the daughter of his paternal aunt.