Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage Chapter: Stipulations in Marriage: The Permissible and Impermissible ones ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ عَاصِ٠َّدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فِي الرَّجُلِ يَتَزَوَّجُ الْ٠َرْأَةَ إِلَى أَجَلٍ ٠ًّى فَإِنْ جَاءَ بِصَدَاقِهَا إِلَى أَجَلٍ ٠ْرَأَتُهُ وَإِنْ لَ٠ْ يَأْتِ بِصَدَاقِهَا إِلَى الأجَلِ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ عَلَيْهَا سَبِيلٌ وَذَلِكَ شَرْطُهُ٠ْ حِينَ أَنْكَحُوهُ فَقَضَى لِلرَّجُلِ أَنَّ بِيَدِهِ بُضْعَ ا٠ْرَأَتِهِ وَأَحْبَطَ شَرْطَهُ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn abu Najran from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr fro ‘Asem ibn Hamid from Muhammad ibn Qays who has said the following: “About the case of a man who marries a woman for an appointed time that if within that time he pays mahr (dower) she is his wife and if he does not pay mahr (dower) within the appointed time he will have no way to the woman because such is their condition of the time of forming marriage, abu Ja’far ‘Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘He has his wife in his hand and their condition falls void.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (20/143))