Al-Kāfi - The Book of Talaq (Divorces)

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Talaq (Divorces) Chapter: The Time when a Divorced Woman in the Manner of Divorce with Waiting Period and Revocable Form Becomes Stranger to him عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َرَ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ رَجُلٌ طَلَّقَ ا٠ْرَأَتَهُ عَلَى طُهْرٍ ٠َاعٍ بِشَهَادَةِ عَدْلَيْنِ فَقَالَ إِذَا دَخَلَتْ فِي الْحَيْضَةِ الثَّالِثَةِ فَقَدِ انْقَضَتْ عِدَّتُهَا وَ حَلَّتْ لِلْأَزْوَاجِ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ إِنَّ أَهْلَ الْعِرَاقِ يَرْوُونَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ( صلوات الله عليه ) أَنَّهُ قَالَ هُوَ أَحَقُّ بِرَجْعَتِهَا ٠ِنَ الْحَيْضَةِ الثَّالِثَةِ فَقَالَ فَقَدْ كَذَبُوا.

He (the Imam) said, ‘When she experiences Hayd (menses) for the third time her waiting period is complete and she is lawful for marriage/ I then said, ‘I pray to Allah to keep you well, people of Iraq narrate from Ali (a.s.), who has said that he has the right to go back to her before she takes Ghusl (bath) for the third Hayd (menses). He (the Imam) said, ‘They have spoken a lie.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/147))