سَأَلْتُ الْعَبْدَ الصَّالِحَ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هُوَ بِالْعُرَيْضِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي قَدْ تَزَوَّجْتُ امْرَأَةً وَ كَانَ تُحِبُّنِي فَتَزَوَّجْتُ عَلَيْهَا ابْنَةَ خَالِي وَ قَدْ كَانَ لِي مِنَ الْمَرْأَةِ وَلَدٌ فَرَجَعْتُ إِلَى بَغْدَادَ فَطَلَّقْتُهَا وَاحِدَةً ثُمَّ رَاجَعْتُهَا ثُمَّ طَلَّقْتُهَا الثَّانِيَةَ ثُمَّ رَاجَعْتُهَا ثُمَّ خَرَجْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِهَا أُرِيدُ سَفَرِي هَذَا حَتَّى إِذَا كُنْتُ بِالْكُوفَةِ أَرَدْتُ النَّظَرَ إِلَى ابْنَةِ خَالِي فَقَالَتْ أُخْتِي وَ خَالَتِي لَا تَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا وَ اللَّهِ أَبَداً حَتَّى تُطَلِّقَ فُلَانَةَ فَقُلْتُ وَيْحَكُمْ وَ اللَّهِ مَا لِي إِلَى طَلَاقِهَا سَبِيلٌ فَقَالَ لِي هُوَ مِنْ شَأْنِكَ لَيْسَ لَكَ إِلَى طَلَاقِهَا سَبِيلٌ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنَّهُ كَانَتْ لِي مِنْهَا بِنْتٌ وَ كَانَتْ بِبَغْدَادَ وَ كَانَتْ هَذِهِ بِالْكُوفَةِ وَ خَرَجْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِهَا قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ بِأَرْبَعٍ فَأَبَوْا عَلَيَّ إِلَّا تَطْلِيقَهَا ثَلَاثاً وَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ مَا أَرَدْتُ اللَّهَ وَ مَا أَرَدْتُ إِلَّا أَنْ أُدَارِيَهُمْ عَنْ نَفْسِي وَ قَدِ امْتَلَأَ قَلْبِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَمَكَثَ طَوِيلًا مُطْرِقاً ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيَّ وَ هُوَ مُتَبَسِّمٌ فَقَالَ أَمَّا مَا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَلَيْسَ بِشَيْءٍ وَ لَكِنْ إِذَا قَدَّمُوكَ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ أَبَانَهَا مِنْكَ .
Translation
Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Ibn sama’at, from Ubeys Bin Hisham, and Salih Bin Khalid, from Mansour Bin Yunus who said, ‘Al-Abd Al-Salih<sup>asws</sup> (7th Imam<sup>asws</sup>) was asked, and he<sup>asws</sup> was at Al-Urayz, so I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I have married a woman and she used to love me, then I married upon her a daughter of my maternal uncle, and there was a son for me from the woman. So I returned to Baghdad, so I divorced her once. Then I reverted to her, then divorced her the second (divorce). Then I went from her presence intending this journey, until I was at Al-Kufa. I wanted to look at the daughter of my maternal uncle, so my sister and my maternal aunt said, ‘You will not look at her ever, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, until you divorce so and so’. So I said, ‘Woe be unto you! By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, there is no way for me to divorce her’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘It is from your affairs, there is no way for you to divorce her’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you! There was a daughter for me from her, and she was at Baghdad, and this one is at Al-Kufa, and I went out from her presence before that by four (days), so they refused me (to see her) except that I divorce her three times, and no, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, may I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I did not intend (for the Sake of) Allah<sup>azwj</sup> except that I manage them from myself, and it has afflicted my heart due to that, may I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>!’ So he<sup>asws</sup> remained silent for a long time, then raised his<sup>asws</sup> head towards me, and he<sup>asws</sup> was smiling. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘As for what is between you and Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic, so it is not with anything, but, when they proceed you to the Sultan (ruling authority), they would irrevocably divorce her from you’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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