Chapter on Itikaf and What Fasting Is Obligatory in It

And from him, from a number of our companions, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Ibn Mahbub, from Abu Wallad al-Hannat, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘a woman whose husband had been absent, then he arrived while she was in seclusion for worship (itikaf) with the permission of her husband, so she went out, when news of his arrival reached her, from the mosque to her house, and she prepared herself for her husband until he had intercourse with her.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “If she had gone out from the mosque before three days (of itikaf) had passed, and she had not stipulated a condition in her seclusion for worship (itikaf), then upon her is what is upon the one who performs zihar (al-muzahir).”