Ruling on a Sunni woman marrying an Ismaili

 

 I have a question on which lifes of two people depends. I will appreciate deeply from my heart if you could answer this question. And i will be really gald if u keep my name confidential. A friend of mine very deeply loves this guy. Now the problem is the girl is sunni and the guy is ismaili. I would i to know if it is possible for them to get married or does their sects matter that much even though they are both muslim and belief in Allah? . 

Praise be to Allaah. 

It is not permissible for this woman to marry
this Ismaili man, because the Ismailis are heretics who are beyond the
pale of Islam. 

The scholars said concerning their madhhab
(school of thought): “It is a way which outwardly is Raafidi but inwardly
conceals pure kufr…” 

Ibn al-Jawzi said: “What they say is a denial
of the Creator and of Prophethood and of the acts of worship, and denial
of the resurrection. But they do not manifest this openly at the beginning.
Rather they claim that Allaah is true and that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allaah, and that the religion is true. But they say that these concepts
have a hidden meaning which differs from the apparent meaning. Iblees
has deceived them and has made their way attractive to them.” 

Similar rulings were applied to other groups
besides the Ismailis who follow bid’ah and who were deemed to be kaafirs,
such as the Nusayris and the Raafidis. So it is not permitted to marry
any of them, or for them to marry any of the Muslims. 

It was narrated that Talhah ibn Musarrif (may
Allaah have mercy on him) said: “The women of the Raafidis should not
be married, because they are apostates.” 

Shaykh al-Islam (Ibn Taymiyah) said in his
discussion of the extreme views of the Raafidis and of the Nusayris
and Ismailis concerning ‘Ali, that all of these kuffaar are worse kaafirs
than the Jews and Christians. If one of them does not make an open display
of that, then he is one of the munaafiqeen (hypocrites) who will be
in the lowest level of Hell, and those who do make an open display of
that are the worst of the kaafirs in kufr. And he said: it is not permitted
to marry their women, because they are apostates and are the worst kind
of apostates. 

Concerning the Nusayris he said: the scholars
are agreed that it is not permitted to intermarry with them, or for
a man to marry his female relative to one of them, or to marry one of
their women. 

Mutawaatir reports from the righteous salaf
indicate that it is forbidden for a Muslim woman from among Ahl al-Sunnah
to marry someone from among the followers of bid’ah who has been judged
to be a kaafir, and that this type of marriage is null and void. 

See Mawqif Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah
min Ahl al-Ahwaa ‘wa’l-Bida’ by Dr. Ibraaheem al-Raheeli, 1/377-380 

And Al-Taqreeb bayna Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Shee’ah,
by. Dr. al-Qaffaari, 1/152 

On this basis, it is not permissible for this
Muslim woman to marry this man, because he is not a Muslim, even if
he claims to be, as was stated above concerning their madhhab. She should
not continue thinking of this haraam matter. And Allaah knows best.