Al-Kafi 10929

Translation

Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about the man who abandons his wife from without a divorce and oaths that for a year he would not go near her bed’. He^asws said: ‘Let him go to his wife’. And he^asws said: ‘Whichever man solemnly oaths from his wife, and the solemn oath is that he is saying, ‘No, by Allah^azwj, I will not sleep with you, such and such’, and he is saying, ‘By Allah^azwj, I shall constrict you (due to my anger with you), then he is angry with her, so he awaits with her for four months. Then he should be seized by it, after four months. So he pauses, and he meets and the meeting is that he reconciles with his wife, so Allah^azwj is most Forgiving more Merciful. So if he does not meet, he is compelled that he divorces, and a divorce does not happen between the two of them until he pauses, even if it was as well after the four months, he would be compelled upon that he either meets (reconciles) or divorces’.

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