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 عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْ٠َانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْ٠َنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) هَلْ لِلرَّجُلِ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ النَّصْرَانِيَّةَ عَلَى الْ٠َةَ عَلَى الْحُرَّةِ فَقَالَ لا تُتَزَوَّجُ وَاحِدَةٌ ٠َةِ وَتُتَزَوَّجُ الْ٠َةِ وَالنَّصْرَانِيَّةِ وَلِلْ٠َةِ الثُّلُثَانِ وَلِلأ٠َةِ وَالنَّصْرَانِيَّةِ الثُّلُثُ.

He (the Imam) said, ‘He cannot marry anyone of them as a second wife, the first being a Muslim woman. One can marry a Muslim woman as a second wife, the first being a slave-girl or a Christian woman. The Muslim woman will have two-thirds of the time, the slave-girl and the Christian woman one-third of the time.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (20/72))