Is it permissible to prevent one's wife from visiting her family or her married sister to avoid shaking hands with non-mahram men, given that the husband knows his wife is convinced of the impermissibility of shaking hands and finds it awkward and is sometimes forced into it with her relatives, such as her male cousins, who find it strange that she does not shake hands?
It is not permissible for a woman to shake hands with a non-mahram man. The proof of its prohibition is what Al-Tabarani narrated from the hadith of Ma'qil ibn Yasar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle is better for him than that he should touch a woman who is not lawful for him."
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