The Rights of a Divorced Woman of mahr (dower) with Whom He has not Gone to Bed

Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 2|Chapter 40
Al-Kāfi

Volume 6, Book 2, Chapter 40

The Rights of a Divorced Woman of mahr (dower) with Whom He has not Gone to Bed

وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ فِي الرَّجُلِ يُعْتِقُ أَمَتَهُ فَيَجْعَلُ عِتْقَهَا مَهْرَهَا ثُمَّ يُطَلِّقُهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ بِهَا قَالَ تَرُدُّ عَلَيْهِ نِصْفَ قِيمَتِهَا تُسْتَسْعَى فِيهَا.
14. Through the same chain of narrators as that of the previous Hadith the following is narrated: “About the case of a man who sets his slave-girl free then sets her freedom as her mahr (dower) then divorces before going to bed with her. He (the Imam) said, ‘She must return one-half of her price and must work to pay the rest.’”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/185)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī