اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِنَبِيِّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِنَّا أَحْلَلْنا لَكَ أَزْواجَكَ كَمْ أَحَلَّ لَهُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ قَالَ مَا شَاءَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ قُلْتُ [قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ] وَ امْرَأَةً مُؤْمِنَةً إِنْ وَهَبَتْ نَفْسَها لِلنَّبِيِّ فَقَالَ لَا تَحِلُّ الْهِبَةُ إِلَّا لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ أَمَّا لِغَيْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَلَا يَصْلُحُ نِكَاحٌ إِلَّا بِمَهْرٍ قُلْتُ أَ رَأَيْتَ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لا يَحِلُّ لَكَ النِّساءُ مِنْ بَعْدُ فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا عَنَى بِهِ لَا يَحِلُّ لَكَ النِّسَاءُ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهاتُكُمْ وَ بَناتُكُمْ وَ أَخَواتُكُمْ وَ عَمَّاتُكُمْ وَ خالاتُكُمْ إِلَى آخِرِهَا وَ لَوْ كَانَ الْأَمْرُ كَمَا تَقُولُونَ كَانَ قَدْ أَحَلَّ لَكُمْ مَا لَمْ يُحِلَّ لَهُ لِأَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ يَسْتَبْدِلُ كُلَّمَا أَرَادَ وَ لَكِنْ لَيْسَ الْأَمْرُ كَمَا يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَحَلَّ لِنَبِيِّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَنْ يَنْكِحَ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ مَا أَرَادَ إِلَّا مَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْهِ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ فِي سُورَةِ النِّسَاءِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Abdul Kareem Bin Amro, from Abu Bakr Al Hazramy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> regarding the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic to His<sup>azwj</sup> Prophet<sup>saww</sup> <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:33#h50"><a href="/books/quran:33#h50">[33:50]</a></a> O Prophet! Surely We have Made lawful for you, your wives</span>, how many from the women were Permissible unto him<sup>saww</sup>?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Whatever he<sup>saww</sup> so desired to from anything’. I said, ‘(What about) the Words of the Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:33#h50"><a href="/books/quran:33#h50">[33:50]</a></a> and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet</span>. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The gifting is not Permissible except to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, and as for the others than Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, so a marriage is not correct except with a dowry’. I said, ‘What is your<sup>asws</sup> view of the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:33#h52"><a href="/books/quran:33#h52">[33:52]</a></a> It is not Permissible for you to take women afterwards</span>?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But rather, it Means by it, ‘It is not Permissible for you<sup>saww</sup> the women which Allah<sup>azwj</sup> had Prohibited in this Verse <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:4#h23"><a href="/books/quran:4#h23">[4:23]</a></a> <a href="/#/books/quran:4#h23"><a href="/books/quran:4#h23">[4:23]</a></a> Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts </span>– up to the end of it. And had the matter been as they (people) are saying it to be, it would have been Permissible for you what was not Permissible for him<sup>saww</sup>, because one of you are changing (wives) every times you want, but the matter is not as they are saying it to be. Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Permitted for His<sup>azwj</sup> Prophet<sup>saww</sup> that he<sup>saww</sup> can marry from the women whatever he<sup>saww</sup> so wanted to, except what was Prohibited unto him<sup>saww</sup> in this Verse, in the <span class="iTxt">Surah Al-Nisa</span> (Chapter 4)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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