Chapter on the Divorce by a Slave
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 4|Chapter 20
وَ رَوَى اَلْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ اَلْجَوْهَرِيُّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَنْكَحَ أَمَتَهُ حُرّاً أَوْ عَبْدَ قَوْمٍ آخَرِينَ قَالَ "لَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يَنْزِعَهَا مِنْهُ فَإِنْ بَاعَهَا فَشَاءَ اَلَّذِي اِشْتَرَاهَا أَنْ يَنْزِعَهَا مِنْ زَوْجِهَا فَعَلَ".
Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad Al-Jawhari narrated from Ali ibn Abi Ḥamzah, from Abu Baṣir, from Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq عليه السلام, who said: I asked him about a man who marries off his bondwoman (amah) to a free man or to a slave belonging to another group of people. Imam عليه السلام replied: "The master does not have the right to take her back from her husband. However, if he sells her and the one who purchases her wishes to separate her from her husband, he is permitted to do so."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh