Al-Kafi 9556

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from one of his companions, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws having said: ‘The People of the Book and the entirety of the ones for whom is responsibility, when one of the two spouses becomes a Muslim, so both of them would be upon their marriage, and it is not for him that he throws her out from a House of Al-Islam to something else, and he would not spend the night with her either, but he would come to her by the day. So as for the Polytheists of the Arabs and others, so they would be upon their marriages upto the expiry of the waiting period. So if the woman becomes a Muslim, then the man becomes a Muslim before the expiry of her term, so she is his wife, but if he does not become a Muslim except after the expiry of the term, so she has been irrevocably divorced from him, and there is no way for him to her; and similar to that is the entirety of the ones for whom there is no responsibility, nor is it befitting for the Muslim man that he marries a Jewish woman or a Christian woman when he can find a Muslim woman, whether she is free or a slave girl’.

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