Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage Chapter: Marriage in the form of Al-Shighar 2- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ السِّنْدِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِي٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) لا جَلَبَ وَلا جَنَبَ وَلا شِغَارَ فِي الإسْلا٠ِ وَالشِّغَارُ أَنْ يُزَوِّجَ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ ابْنَتَهُ أَوْ أُخْتَهُ وَيَتَزَوَّجَ هُوَ ابْنَةَ الْ٠ُتَزَوِّجِ أَوْ أُخْتَهُ وَلا يَكُونَ بَيْنَهُ٠َهْرٌ غَيْرُ تَزْوِيجِ هَذَا ٠ِنْ هَذَا وَهَذَا ٠2.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Salih ibn al-Sindiy from Ja’far ibn Bashir from Ghiyath ibn Ibrahim who has said the following: “I once heard abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), saying that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has said, ‘In Islam al-Jalb, al-Janb and Shighar are not permissible.

Shighar is one man’s giving in marriage his daughter or sister to another man to marry this man’s daughter or sister without any amount of mahr (dower) being assigned to anyone of them except that this person marries that person and the other person marries the other person.’” Al-Jalb means that a tax collector commands the tax payers to deliver what they owe to him even if he is far away.

Al-Janb means in horse racing keeping of a spare horse on the side so that when one horse is exhausted the second horse can continue the race. جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/77))