Marriage with Two Sisters at the Same Time: Free or Slave-girls

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father and A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad all from ibn abu Najran and Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr from ‘Asem ibn Hamid from Muhammad ibn Qays who has said the following: “Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام, has said that ’Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام, issued a judgment about the case of two sisters, of whom one had married a man who divorced her, and she was pregnant, then proposed marriage to her sister and married her before her divorced sister gave birth, he (the Imam) commanded them to separate from the one married last until her sister gives birth, then he can propose marriage to her and assign mahr (dower) for her twice.’”