Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage Chapter: Fathers Permission for a Girl’s Marriage ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنِ الْجَارِيَةِ الصَّغِيرَةِ يُزَوِّجُهَا أَبُوهَا أَلَهَا أَ٠ْرٌ إِذَا بَلَغَتْ قَالَ لا لَيْسَ لَهَا ٠ْرٌ قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْبِكْرِ إِذَا بَلَغَتْ ٠َبْلَغَ النِّسَاءِ أَلَهَا ٠ْرٌ قَالَ لا لَيْسَ لَهَا ٠6.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Salt who has said the following: “I once asked al-Rida’, Alayhi al-Salam, about the case of a small girl whose father wanted to give her in marriage: if she had any commandment. He (the Imam) said, ‘No, with the existence of her father she has no commandments.’ I then asked about a virgin who has grown like other woman; if she has any commandment with her father.

He (the Imam) said, ‘No, she does not have any commands with her father until she grows up.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/130))