سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ نَصْرَانِيَّةٍ كَانَتْ تَحْتَ نَصْرَانِيٍّ فَطَلَّقَهَا هَلْ عَلَيْهَا عِدَّةٌ مِثْلُ عِدَّةِ الْمُسْلِمَةِ فَقَالَ لَا لِأَنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ مَمَالِيكُ لِلْإِمَامِ أَ لَا تَرَى أَنَّهُمْ يُؤَدُّونَهُمُ الْجِزْيَةَ كَمَا يُؤَدِّي الْعَبْدُ الضَّرِيبَةَ إِلَى مَوْلَاهُ قَالَ وَ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ مِنْهُمْ فَهُوَ حُرٌّ تُطْرَحُ عَنْهُ الْجِزْيَةُ قُلْتُ فَمَا عِدَّتُهَا إِنْ أَرَادَ الْمُسْلِمُ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَهَا قَالَ عِدَّتُهَا عِدَّةُ الْأَمَةِ حَيْضَتَانِ أَوْ خَمْسَةٌ وَ أَرْبَعُونَ يَوْماً قَبْلَ أَنْ تُسْلِمَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ فَإِنْ أَسْلَمَتْ بَعْدَ مَا طَلَّقَهَا فَقَالَ إِذَا أَسْلَمَتْ بَعْدَ مَا طَلَّقَهَا فَإِنَّ عِدَّتَهَا عِدَّةُ الْمُسْلِمَةِ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ مَاتَ عَنْهَا وَ هِيَ نَصْرَانِيَّةٌ وَ هُوَ نَصْرَانِيٌّ فَأَرَادَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَهَا قَالَ لَا يَتَزَوَّجُهَا الْمُسْلِمُ حَتَّى تَعْتَدَّ مِنَ النَّصْرَانِيِّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَ عَشْراً عِدَّةَ الْمُسْلِمَةِ الْمُتَوَفَّى عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا قُلْتُ لَهُ كَيْفَ جُعِلَتْ عِدَّتُهَا إِذَا طُلِّقَتْ عِدَّةَ الْأَمَةِ وَ جُعِلَتْ عِدَّتُهَا إِذَا مَاتَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا عِدَّةَ الْحُرَّةِ الْمُسْلِمَةِ وَ أَنْتَ تَذْكُرُ أَنَّهُمْ مَمَالِيكُ الْإِمَامِ فَقَالَ لَيْسَ عِدَّتُهَا فِي الطَّلَاقِ مِثْلَ عِدَّتِهَا إِذَا تُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا زَوْجُهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ الْأَمَةَ وَ الْحُرَّةَ كِلْتَيْهِمَا إِذَا مَاتَ عَنْهُمَا زَوْجُهُمَا سَوَاءٌ فِي الْعِدَّةِ إِلَّا أَنَّ الْحُرَّةَ تُحِدُّ وَ الْأَمَةَ لَا تُحِدُّ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Ra’ib, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about a Christian woman who was under (married to) a Christian. So he divorced her. Is there a waiting period upon her similar to what is upon the Muslim woman?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, because the People of the Book are in the domain of the Imam<sup>asws</sup>. Do you not see that they are paying the taxation to him<sup>asws</sup> just as the slave pays whatever he earns to his master?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And the one who becomes a Muslim from them, so he is free. The taxation would be dropped from him. I said, ‘So what is her waiting period if the Muslim man intends to marry her?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Her waiting period is a waiting period of the slave woman, two menstruations, or forty-five days, before she became a Muslim’. I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Supposing she becomes a Muslim after her divorce?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If she becomes a Muslim after her divorce, so her waiting period is a waiting period of the Muslim woman’. I said, ‘Supposing he dies from her, and she is a Christian and he is a Christian, so a man from the Muslims intends to marry her?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The Muslim man cannot marry her until she observes the waiting period from the Christian, of four months and ten (days), being a waiting period of the Muslim woman widowed from her husband’. I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘How did it become, when she is divorced her waiting period is that of the slave girl, and her waiting period became, when her husband dies from her, a waiting period of the free Muslim woman, and you<sup>asws</sup> mentioned that they are in the domain of the Imam<sup>asws</sup>?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Her waiting period regarding the divorce is not like her waiting period when he husband dies from her’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The slave girls, and the free women, both of them are equal, when their husbands die from them, with regards to the waiting period, except that the free woman would limit herself (in mourning), and the slave girl would not limit herself (in mourning)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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