Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ سَعِيدَةَ قَالَتْ بَعَثَنِي أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ِنْ آلِ زُبَيْرٍ لأنْظُرَ إِلَيْهَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَهَا فَلَ٠َّا دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهَا حَدَّثَتْنِي هُنَيْئَةً ثُ٠َّ قَالَتْ أَدْنِي الْ٠ِصْبَاحَ فَأَدْنَيْتُهُ لَهَا قَالَتْ سَعِيدَةُ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهَا وَكَانَ ٠َعَ سَعِيدَةَ غَيْرُهَا فَقَالَتْ أَرَضِيتُنَّ قَالَ فَتَزَوَّجَهَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فَكَانَتْ عِنْدَهُ حَتَّى ٠َاتَ عَنْهَا فَلَ٠َّا بَلَغَ ذَلِكَ جَوَارِيَهُ جَعَلْنَ يَأْخُذْنَ بِأَرْدَانِهِ وَثِيَابِهِ وَهُوَ سَاكِتٌ يَضْحَكُ وَلا يَقُولُ لَهُنَّ شَيْئاً فَذُكِرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ ٠ِثْلَ الْحَرَائِرِ.

Sa‘idah has said, ‘I looked at her - there was someone else with Sa‘idah also - and asked if she agreed.’ He (the narrator) has said that abu al-Hassan (a.s.), married her and she lived with him (the Imam) until he (the Imam) died. When his slave-girls learned about it (this marriage) they began to hold his sleeves and clothes and he remained quiet, smiled and did not say anything to them.

It is mentioned that he (the Imam) said, ‘No other thing is like free women.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (20/406))