{
 "id": "concept/anus-spinster",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "anus-spinster",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العَنُوس",
  "en": "The woman left unmarried (anus) and the rules on her consent and maintenance",
  "ur": "عنوس (کنواری بیٹھی عورت)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "العنوس في اللغة المرأة التي تأخر زواجها بعد إدراكها ومكثها في بيت أهلها، وتطلق على الرجل أيضاً إذا تأخر زواجه، والجمع عنّس {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}. والعضل قد يكون سبباً لعنوسة المرأة، وهو منع الرجل حريمه من التزويج {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. واختلف الفقهاء في معاملة العانس معاملة البكر في الإجبار والإذن، فذهب الجمهور إلى أنها كالبكر في دوام الإجبار عليها، وذهب بعض المالكية والشافعية إلى معاملتها معاملة الثيب إذا زالت بكارتها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. ولم يحدد الفقهاء سناً واحدة للعنوسة، فقيل ما بين العشرين والأربعين، وقيل يرجع فيها إلى العرف {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. وتجب نفقة العانس على أبيها حتى تتزوج {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}.",
  "en": "In the lexicon, 'anus is a woman whose marriage is delayed after she reaches the age and stays in her family's house; the word is also used of a man whose marriage is late, and its plural is 'unnas {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}. The obstruction of a marriage by a guardian can be a cause of a woman remaining unmarried {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. The jurists differ on treating the spinster as a virgin in matters of compulsion and consent: the majority hold she remains like a virgin in the guardian's power to compel her, while some Malikis and Shafi'is treat her like a previously married woman once her virginity is lost {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. The jurists do not fix a single age for spinsterhood; some give a range from twenty to forty, and others refer it to custom {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. The father must maintain an unmarried daughter until she marries {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «عَنُوس»، ص 11900-11901 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w07-batch51"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword عَنُوس complete on scan pp.11900-11901 (lexical sense, the obstruction, consent, the age, maintenance). The next headword عَنْوَة begins on scan p.11902. Footnote citations omitted"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العنوس في اللغة المرأة التي تأخر زواجها بعد إدراكها ومكثها في بيت أهلها، وتطلق على الرجل أيضاً إذا تأخر زواجه، والجمع عنّس {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}. والعضل قد يكون سبباً لعنوسة المرأة، وهو منع الرجل حريمه من التزويج {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. واختلف الفقهاء في معاملة العانس معاملة البكر في الإجبار والإذن، فذهب الجمهور إلى أنها كالبكر في دوام الإجبار عليها، وذهب بعض المالكية والشافعية إلى معاملتها معاملة الثيب إذا زالت بكارتها {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. ولم يحدد الفقهاء سناً واحدة للعنوسة، فقيل ما بين العشرين والأربعين، وقيل يرجع فيها إلى العرف {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. وتجب نفقة العانس على أبيها حتى تتزوج {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anus-spinster",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In the lexicon, 'anus is a woman whose marriage is delayed after she reaches the age and stays in her family's house; the word is also used of a man whose marriage is late, and its plural is 'unnas {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}. The obstruction of a marriage by a guardian can be a cause of a woman remaining unmarried {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. The jurists differ on treating the spinster as a virgin in matters of compulsion and consent: the majority hold she remains like a virgin in the guardian's power to compel her, while some Malikis and Shafi'is treat her like a previously married woman once her virginity is lost {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. The jurists do not fix a single age for spinsterhood; some give a range from twenty to forty, and others refer it to custom {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}. The father must maintain an unmarried daughter until she marries {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anus-spinster",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عنوس وہ عورت ہے جس کی شادی تاخیر سے ہو اور وہ گھر میں بیٹھی رہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11900}۔ جمہور کے نزدیک ایسی عورت کنواری کی طرح زیرِ ولایت رہتی ہے {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11901}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anus-spinster",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/adl-nikah",
  "concept/afal",
  "concept/dhukura-fiqh",
  "concept/jahili-marriage-forms",
  "concept/social-condition-jahiliyya",
  "concept/wad",
  "event/custody-of-hamzas-daughter",
  "event/marriage-of-fatima-and-ali"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}