[16] أَبَانٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ تَزَوَّجُ الْمَرْأَةُ مَنْ شَاءَتْ إِذَا كَانَتْ مَالِكَةً لِأَمْرِهَا فَإِنْ شَاءَتْ جَعَلَتْ وَلِيّاً . Aban, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Abdullah, from; Abu Abdullah -asws (6 th Imam -asws ) said: ‘The woman can get married to whoever she so desires to when she was in control of her affairs. So, if she so desires to, she can appoint a wali (guardian)’.
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Fazalat Bin Ayoub, from Umar Bin Aban Al Kalby, from Maysarat who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘I meet a woman in the wilderness wherein there is no one, so I am saying to her, ‘Is there a husband for you?’ So she is saying, ‘No’. Can I marry her?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes, she is the ratified one upon herself’.
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad Bin Usman, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said regarding the divorced or widowed woman whether she can propose herself. He -asws said: ‘She is in control of herself to turn her affair to whoever she so desires to, when he was a ‘كُفْواً’ (Kuff) match, after it had been such that she had married a man before him’.