Al-Kafi 10736

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, form his father, both together from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdul Raham Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan^asws about a man who married a woman secretly from her family and she was in the house of her family, and had intended to divorce her, and he could not go to her. So he knew her menstruation when she menstruated, and did not know of her purity when she was pure. So he^asws said: ‘This is like the absentee from his wife. He divorces her by the new-moons and the months’. I said, ‘What is your^asws view if he could sometimes go to her and sometimes he could not go to her, so he would know of her state, how should he divorce her?’ So he^asws said: ‘When a month passes by for him, not being able to go to her in it, he can divorce her by looking at the onset of the month, with witnesses, and he writes down the month in which he divorces her, and keeps two men as witnesses upon his divorcing her. So when three months pass by, so she is irrevocably divorced from him, and he is a proposer from the proposers, and upon him is her expenses in the third month which she had her waiting period in’.

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