Question:
Will the grandsons of a divorced first wife have to do pardah from the divorced husband’s second wife?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم
Answer:
A man married his first wife, they had children, and then grandchildren. He thereafter got married to a second wife. Your question is whether his first wife’s (and his own) grandsons are maḥram (unmarriageable) to his second wife.
In this above scenario, the grandsons from his first wife are maḥram (unmarriageable) to his second wife and there will not be any ‘pardah’ (segregation) because she will be considered their step-grandmother.
However, a man married his first wife, divorced her sometime later and got married to a second wife. His first wife got married to a second husband and had children, then grandchildren. If your question is the above scenario on whether his first wife’s grandsons are maḥram (unmarriageable) to his second wife.
The grandsons of his first wife will not be mahram to his second wife. They will have to abide by the laws of segregation and ḥijāb and hence they will have to do ‘pardah’.
Allāh Ta’ālā knows best
Siddiqa al-Farsiyyah (Muftiya)
Approved by Mufti Tosir Miah (ḥafiẓahullāh)
Al-Fatāwā Al-Hindiyyah 1/339, Al-Maktabah Al-Faisal
والرابعة) نساء الآباء والأجداد من جهة الأب أو الأم وإن علوا فهؤلاء محرمات على التأبيد نكاحا ووطئا، كذا في الحاوي القدسي
Imām Ash-Shaybānī, Al-Aṣl 4/358, Dār Ibn Hazm
وحرم الله تعالى العمة بالنسب. وحرمت السنة والإجماع أم العمة إن كانت أمها أم الأب أو غير أم الأب. فإن كانت أم الأب فهي حرام بالسنة والإجماع. وإن كانت أمها غير أم الأب فهي امرأة الجدة لأن الله تعالى قال: {وَلَا تَنْكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ آبَاؤُكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ}. وأقامت السنة امرأة الجد مقام امرأة الأب
‘Allāmah Ibn ‘Ābidīn, Radd Al-Muḥtār 4/107, Al-Maktabah Al-Ashrafiyyah
قوله: مصاهرة) كفروع نسائه المدخول بهن، وإن نزلن، وأمهات الزوجات وجداتهن بعقد صحيح، وإن علون، وإن لم يدخل بالزوجات وتحرم موطوءات آبائه وأجداده، وإن علوا ولو بزنى والمعقودات لهم عليهن بعقد صحيح
Hadithiyya 