University of Tehran Law Quarterly 2588-5618 42 1 2012 03 20 IMPRISONING A HUSBAND WHO REFUSES TO PAY ALIMONY TO HIS WIFE IMPRISONING A HUSBAND WHO REFUSES TO PAY ALIMONY TO HIS WIFE 53 66 29816 10.22059/jlq.2012.29816 FA Seyyed Mohammadreza Ayati St. Abdoljabbar Zargushnasab Journal Article 1970 01 01 In this paper there has paid to ideas and evidences of Jurisprudents about imprisoning a husband who refuses to pay alimony to his wife. The verdict of those Sunni Jurisprudents that" if the husband is hard up he is only convicted to a discretionary imprisonment "is not correct because the verdict is both contradictory with the Verse of hard up "if a man is poor and hard up give him a respite until he becomes a rich man" (Surah the Cow, Verse 280) and it has paradox with some Narrations There are differences of opinions between scholars and Jurisprudents of both Shiites and Sunni on the proposed issue. All of ideas are classified into three Shiites groups and four Sunni groups and every one of them has analyzed thoroughly. In this paper there has paid to ideas and evidences of Jurisprudents about imprisoning a husband who refuses to pay alimony to his wife. The verdict of those Sunni Jurisprudents that" if the husband is hard up he is only convicted to a discretionary imprisonment "is not correct because the verdict is both contradictory with the Verse of hard up "if a man is poor and hard up give him a respite until he becomes a rich man" (Surah the Cow, Verse 280) and it has paradox with some Narrations There are differences of opinions between scholars and Jurisprudents of both Shiites and Sunni on the proposed issue. All of ideas are classified into three Shiites groups and four Sunni groups and every one of them has analyzed thoroughly. https://jlq.ut.ac.ir/article_29816_9dea5482507cf8781d85d45f8574163e.pdf