Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage Chapter: Marriage of a Free Man with a Slave َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠ْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنْ نِكَاحِ الأ٠َةِ قَالَ يَتَزَوَّجُ الْحُرَّةَ عَلَى الأ٠َةِ وَلا تُتَزَوَّجُ الأ٠َةُ عَلَى الْحُرَّةِ وَنِكَاحُ الأ٠َةِ عَلَى الْحُرَّةِ بَاطِلٌ وَإِنِ اجْتَ٠َعَتْ عِنْدَكَ حُرَّةٌ وَأَ٠َةٌ فَلِلْحُرَّةِ يَوْ٠ٌ لا يَصْلُحُ نِكَاحُ الأ٠َةِ إِلا بِإِذْنِ ٠3.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn abu Hamzah from abu Basir who has said the following: “This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the marriage with a slave-girl.

He (the Imam) said, ‘One can marry a free woman as a second wife, the first being a slave- girl, but he cannot marry a slave-girl as a second wife, the first being a free woman, and the marriage contract of slave-girl as a second wife, the first being a free woman, is invalid.

If you have a free and a slave-girl wife, for the free wife are two days and for the slave-girl one day and it is not proper to marry a slave-girl without the permission of the master.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/71))