سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْمَفْقُودِ كَيْفَ يُصْنَعُ بِامْرَأَتِهِ قَالَ مَا سَكَتَتْ عَنْهُ وَ صَبَرَتْ يُخَلَّى عَنْهَا فَإِنْ هِيَ رَفَعَتْ أَمْرَهَا إِلَى الْوَالِي أَجَّلَهَا أَرْبَعَ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ يَكْتُبُ إِلَى الصُّقْعِ الَّذِي فُقِدَ فِيهِ فَلْيُسْأَلْ عَنْهُ فَإِنْ خُبِّرَ عَنْهُ بِحَيَاةٍ صَبَرَتْ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُخْبَرْ عَنْهُ بِشَيْءٍ حَتَّى تَمْضِيَ الْأَرْبَعُ سِنِينَ دُعِيَ وَلِيُّ الزَّوْجِ الْمَفْقُودِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ هَلْ لِلْمَفْقُودِ مَالٌ فَإِنْ كَانَ لَهُ مَالٌ أُنْفِقَ عَلَيْهَا حَتَّى يُعْلَمَ حَيَاتُهُ مِنْ مَوْتِهِ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ مَالٌ قِيلَ لِلْوَلِيِّ أَنْفِقْ عَلَيْهَا فَإِنْ فَعَلَ فَلَا سَبِيلَ لَهَا إِلَى أَنْ تَتَزَوَّجَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُنْفِقْ عَلَيْهَا أَجْبَرَهُ الْوَالِي عَلَى أَنْ يُطَلِّقَ تَطْلِيقَةً فِي اسْتِقْبَالِ الْعِدَّةِ وَ هِيَ طَاهِرٌ فَيَصِيرُ طَلَاقُ الْوَلِيِّ طَلَاقَ الزَّوْجِ فَإِنْ جَاءَ زَوْجُهَا مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَنْقَضِيَ عِدَّتُهَا مِنْ يَوْمَ طَلَّقَهَا الْوَلِيُّ فَبَدَا لَهُ أَنْ يُرَاجِعَهَا فَهِيَ امْرَأَتُهُ وَ هِيَ عِنْدَهُ عَلَى تَطْلِيقَتَيْنِ فَإِنِ انْقَضَتِ الْعِدَّةُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجِيءَ أَوْ يُرَاجِعَ فَقَدْ حَلَّتْ لِلْأَزْوَاجِ وَ لَا سَبِيلَ لِلْأَوَّلِ عَلَيْهَا .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Bureyd Bin Muawiya who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the lost one, how should his wife be dealt with?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If she is silent from it and has been patient, she would be left alone, but if she raises her matter to the ruler, her term is four years. Then he should write to the region in which he disappeared. So let him ask about him, and if there is news of him being alive, she has to be patience, and if there is no news about him, until the four years have passed, he would call the guardian of the lost husband, so he would say to him, ‘Is there wealth for the lost one?’ So if there was wealth for the lost for him, it would be spent upon her until his living from his death would be known. And if there is no wealth for him, he would say to the guardian, ‘Spend upon her. So if he were to do that, so there is no way for her to be remarried, and if he does not spend upon her, the ruler would compel him that he should divorce with one divorce during the inception of the waiting period and she is pure. Thus a divorce of the guardian would be a divorce of the husband. So if her husband were to come before the fulfillment of her waiting period, from the day the guardian divorced her, so it would be inevitable for him to revert to her, for she is his wife, and she is with him upon the two (remaining) divorces. So if her waiting period has passed before he is (found) alive, or he returns, so she is free for the marriage, and there is no way for the first (husband) upon her’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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