Al-Kāfi - The Book of Talaq (Divorces)

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Talaq (Divorces) Chapter: Divorce of People with Mental Condition and Insane Ones and their Guardian ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْقَ٠َّاطِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠) فِي طَلَاقِ الْ٠َعْتُوهِ قَالَ يُطَلِّقُ عَنْهُ وَلِيُّهُ فَإِنِّي أَرَاهُ بِ٠7.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from Muhammad ibn Sinan from abu Khalid al-Qammat who has said the following: “About the case of a man suffering from a mental condition, abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘His guardian divorces for him because I see him like the Imam (for him).”’ شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/214))