فَأَمَّا الْمُشْرِكُونَ مِثْلُ مُشْرِكِي الْعَرَبِ وَ...
فَأَمَّا الْمُشْرِكُونَ مِثْلُ مُشْرِكِي الْعَرَبِ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ فَهُمْ عَلَى نِكَاحِهِمْ إِلَى انْقِضَاءِ الْعِدَّةِ فَإِنْ أَسْلَمَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ ثُمَّ أَسْلَمَ الرَّجُلُ قَبْلَ انْقِضَاءِ عِدَّتِهَا فَهِيَ امْرَأَتُهُ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُسْلِمْ إِلَّا بَعْدَ انْقِضَاءِ الْعِدَّةِ فَقَدْ بَانَتْ مِنْهُ وَ لَا سَبِيلَ لَهُ عَلَيْهَا وَ كَذَلِكَ جَمِيعُ مَنْ لَا ذِمَّةَ لَهُ وَ لَا يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُسْلِمِ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ يَهُودِيَّةً وَ لَا نَصْرَانِيَّةً وَ هُوَ يَجِدُ مُسْلِمَةً حُرَّةً أَوْ أَمَةً .
So as for the Polytheists of the Arabs and others, so they would be upon their marriages up to the expiry of the waiting period.
So if the woman becomes a Muslim, then the man becomes a Muslim before the expiry of her term, so she is his wife, but if he does not become a Muslim except after the expiry of the term, so she has been irrevocably divorced from him, and there is no way for him to her; and similar to that is the entirety of the ones for whom there is no responsibility, nor is it befitting for the Muslim man that he marries a Jewish woman or a Christian woman when he can find a Muslim woman, whether she is free or a slave girl’.
[24] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَأَلْتُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ لَهُ امْرَأَةٌ نَصْرَانِيَّةٌ لَهُ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ عَلَيْهَا يَهُودِيَّةً فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ مَمَالِيكُ لِلْإِمَامِ وَ ذَلِكَ مُوَسَّعٌ مِنَّا عَلَيْكُمْ خَاصَّةً فَلَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far -asws , said, ‘I asked about a man for whom is a Christian woman, is it for him that he marries a Jewish woman upon her (as an additional wife)?’ So he -asws said: ‘The People of the Book are in the domain of the Imam -asws , and that is a leeway from us -asws upon you (Shiah) in particular.
So, there is no problem if you were to marry’.
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