Under Muslim Law the following are guardians for marriage of a minor: (i) Father (ii) Mother (iii)…

Under the classical Hanafi ordering assumed by this list, the father and the relevant male paternal relatives precede the mother; State authority is the final listed fallback. Among the four named persons the sequence is therefore father, brother, mother, State: (i), (iv), (ii), (iii). The compressed list omits intermediate relatives, including the paternal grandfather. Shia guardianship is narrower and should not be confused with this Hanafi sequence.

Current law: This historical guardian ordering does not override child-marriage legislation. For marriages within Uttarakhand’s UCC, section 4 sets minimum ages of twenty-one for the man and eighteen for the woman, effective 27 January 2025 subject to applicability and exclusions.