Al-Kafi 13690

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Abu Ubeyda, (The narrator) says, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah^asws about a woman who married a man, (although) for her was a husband’. So he^asws said: ‘If her first husband was living with her in the city which she was in, she could go to him and he could go to her, so upon her would be what is upon the married adulterer, the stoning. And if it was that her first husband was absent from her, or was staying with her in the city, not coming to her and she could not go to him, so upon her would be what is upon an unmarried adulteress, and there is no <span class="iTxt">Li’an</span> (cursing) between the two of them, nor any separation (to be brought about)’. I said, ‘Who would be stoning the two of them, or whipping the two of them with the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>), and her husband did not come to the Imam^asws, nor does he intend that from it’. So he^asws said ‘The Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) would not cease to be upon her body, for the Sake of Allah^azwj, until it is established by the one who establishes it, and or she meets Allah^azwj and He^azwj would be Angry upon her’. I said, ‘So if she was ignorant with what she had done?’ So he^asws said: ‘Is she not in the era of the emigration (Hijra)?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘So there is none from a woman today from the Muslim women except that she knows that it is not Permissible for the Muslim woman to have two husbands for her. And if the woman, when she is immoral, say that ‘I did not know, or I was ignorant’, of that which she has done, and the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) is not established upon her, then the Penalties would be disrupted’.

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