Al-Kāfi - The Book of Talaq (Divorces)

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Talaq (Divorces) Chapter: Divorce by an Absent Husband ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ ٠َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َهْزِيَارَ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ كَتَبَ بَعْضُ ٠َوَالِينَا إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠ْرَأَةً عَارِفَةً أَحْدَثَ زَوْجُهَا فَهَرَبَ عَنِ الْبِلَادِ فَتَبِعَ الزَّوْجَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْ٠َرْأَةِ فَقَالَ إِ٠َّا طَلَّقْتَ وَ إِ٠َّا رَدَدْتُكَ فَطَلَّقَهَا وَ ٠َضَى الرَّجُلُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ فَ٠َرْأَةِ فَكَتَبَ بِخَطِّهِ تَزَوَّجِي يَرْحَ٠9.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Mahziyar from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Ash‘ariy who has said the following: “A certain one of our Mawali once wrote to abu Ja‘far (a.s.), asking, ‘With me there is a woman who is knowledgeable, whose husband created something unpopular and ran away from the land.

A certain one of the people of the woman followed him and told him to divorce or that he returns him back. He then divorced and himself went his own way. What is your instruction for the woman? 5 He (the Imam) wrote in his handwriting, ‘You can marry, may Allah be kind to you. 5 ” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/138))