Marriage with a Woman Divorced Against the Sunnah

Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 3|Chapter 79
Al-Kāfi

Volume 5, Book 3, Chapter 79

Marriage with a Woman Divorced Against the Sunnah

2- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ الْحَدَّادِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) رَجُلٌ مِنْ مَوَالِيكَ يُقْرِئُكَ السَّلامَ وَقَدْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ امْرَأَةً قَدْ وَافَقَتْهُ وَأَعْجَبَهُ بَعْضُ شَأْنِهَا وَقَدْ كَانَ لَهَا زَوْجٌ فَطَلَّقَهَا ثَلاثاً عَلَى غَيْرِ السُّنَّةِ وَقَدْ كَرِهَ أَنْ يُقْدِمَ عَلَى تَزْوِيجِهَا حَتَّى يَسْتَأْمِرَكَ فَتَكُونَ أَنْتَ تَأْمُرُهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) هُوَ الْفَرْجُ وَأَمْرُ الْفَرْجِ شَدِيدٌ وَمِنْهُ يَكُونُ الْوَلَدُ وَنَحْنُ نَحْتَاطُ فَلا يَتَزَوَّجْهَا.
2. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Muhammad ibn abu Hamzah from Shu’ayb al-Hadad who has said the following: “I once said to abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, ‘One of your followers offers greetings of peace to you and he wants to marry a woman who has agreed and he likes her due to certain matters about her and she has a husband who has divorced her three times on non-Sunnah basis. He dislikes marrying her without your instruction so you command him to do so. Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, said, ‘It is an issue of marriage and the matter of marriage is severe because from marriage are children and we maintain precaution, so he must not marry her.’”
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