Al-Kafi 9521

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws, said, ‘I said, ‘What are you^asws saying regarding marrying the people, for you^asws can see I have not married at all’. He^asws said: ‘And what prevents you from that?’ I said, ‘Nothing prevents me except that I fear that marrying them would not happen to be Permissible for me. So what are you^asws ordering me?’ He^asws said: ‘How do you deal with it and you are young, are you being patient?’ I said, ‘I take the slave girl’. He^asws said: ‘Tell me now, so how do you make the slave girl to be Permissible, inform me^asws’. So I said, ‘The slave girls are not at the status of the free women. If the slave girl caused me doubts about something, I can sell her or keep away from her’. He^asws said: ‘Explain, so how do you make her to be Permissible?’ He (the narrator) said, ‘So there was no answer with me. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! What is your^asws view, shall I get married?’ He^asws said: ‘What do I^asws care if you were to do it’. I said, ‘Can you^asws see your^asws words, ‘What do I^asws care if you were to do it’? So in that are two aspects. You^asws are saying: ‘I^asws don’t care if you were to sin from other that I^asws having ordered you’. So what is your^asws view, shall I do that from your^asws order?’ He^asws said: ‘Surely, Rasool-Allah^saww had married and there was from a wife of Noah^as and a wife of Lot^as what Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic has Related, and Allah^azwj the Exalted has Said <span class="ibTxt"> <a href="/#/books/quran:66#h10"><a href="/books/quran:66#h10">[66:10]</a></a> Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve - the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut: they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards them</span>’. So I said, ‘Surely, as for Rasool-Allah^saww, I am not of a status like that. But rather, she was in his^saww hands and she agreed with his^as orders, manifesting his^saww Religion. But, by Allah^azwj, I do not mean by that except with regards to the Words of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt">but they acted treacherously towards them</span>. I do not mean by that except that Rasool-Allah^saww had married so and so’. I said, ‘May Allah^azwj Keep you^asws well! So what are you^asws ordering me for. Shall I go and get married by your^asws order?’ So he^asws said: ‘If you were to do so, upon you is with the simple ones from the women’. I said, ‘And what is the simple one?’ He^asws said: ‘The veiled one, the chaste’. So I said, ‘The one who is upon the Religion of Saalim Abu Hafs?’ So he^asws said: ‘No’. I said, ‘The one who is upon the Religion of Rabie Al-Ra’iy?’ He^asws said: ‘But the young ones who are not hostile (non-<span class="iTxt">Nasibi</span>) and are not understanding what you are understanding (<span class="iTxt">Wilayah</span>)’.

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