Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage 24- أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الأشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ عِ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَ٠َّدِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ أَنَّ رَجُلا خَطَبَ إِلَى عَ٠ٍّ لَهُ ابْنَتَهُ فَأَ٠َرَ بَعْضَ إِخْوَانِهِ أَنْ يُزَوِّجَهُ ابْنَتَهُ الَّتِي خَطَبَهَا وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ أَخْطَأَ بِاسْ٠ِ الْجَارِيَةِ فَسَ٠َّاهَا بِغَيْرِ اسْ٠ِهَا وَكَانَ اسْ٠َّاهَا بِغَيْرِ اسْ٠ِهَا وَلَيْسَ لِلرَّجُلِ ابْنَةٌ بِاسْ٠ِ الَّتِي ذَكَرَهَا الزَّوْجُ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠24.

Abu Ali al-Ash’ariy has narrated from ‘Imran ibn Musa from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid from Muhammad ibn Shu’ayb who has said the following: “I once wrote to him (the Imam) (a.s.), about the case of a man who proposed marriage to the daughter of his uncle who instructed a certain one of his brothers to give his daughter in marriage to him and she is the one for whom he has proposed. The man by mistake gives her a different name and no one of that name exists in the family.

Her name was Fatimah but he gives her a different name. He (the Imam) signed the answer which said, ‘It is not harmful/” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (20/416))