Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage Chapter: Al-Mut‘ah (advantageous marriage) Several Times with one Woman 1- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ الرَّجُلُ يَتَزَوَّجُ الْ٠ُتْعَةَ وَيَنْقَضِي شَرْطُهَا ثُ٠َّ يَتَزَوَّجُهَا رَجُلٌ آخَرُ حَتَّى بَانَتْ ٠َّ يَتَزَوَّجُهَا الأوَّلُ حَتَّى بَانَتْ ٠ِنْهُ ثَلاثاً وَتَزَوَّجَتْ ثَلاثَةَ أَزْوَاجٍ يَحِلُّ لِلأوَّلِ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَهَا قَالَ نَعَ٠ْ شَاءَ لَيْسَ هَذِهِ ٠ِثْلَ الْحُرَّةِ هَذِهِ ٠ُسْتَأْجَرَةٌ وَهِيَ بِ٠1.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from certain persons of our people from Zurarah who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja’far (a.s.), saying, ‘May I be sacrificed for you, a man marries a woman temporarily (through mut'ah) and its appointed time expires, then another man marries her until she becomes a stranger to him, then the first man marries her and she becomes stranger to him and this takes place three times and she marries three husbands; if it is permissible for the first man to marry her again.‘ He (the Imam) said, ’Yes, it is permissible, as many times as he wants; it is not like a free woman.

She is hired and her case is similar to slave-girls.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/246))