سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْمُتْعَةِ فَقَالَ الْقَ عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ جُرَيْجٍ فَسَلْهُ عَنْهَا فَإِنَّ عِنْدَهُ مِنْهَا عِلْماً فَلَقِيتُهُ فَأَمْلَى عَلَيَّ مِنْهَا شَيْئاً كَثِيراً فِي اسْتِحْلَالِهَا فَكَانَ فِيمَا رَوَى لِيَ ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ لَيْسَ فِيهَا وَقْتٌ وَ لَا عَدَدٌ إِنَّمَا هِيَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْإِمَاءِ يَتَزَوَّجُ مِنْهُنَّ كَمْ شَاءَ وَ صَاحِبُ الْأَرْبَعِ نِسْوَةٍ يَتَزَوَّجُ مِنْهُنَّ مَا شَاءَ بِغَيْرِ وَلِيٍّ وَ لَا شُهُودٍ فَإِذَا انْقَضَى الْأَجَلُ بَانَتْ مِنْهُ بِغَيْرِ طَلَاقٍ وَ يُعْطِيهَا الشَّيْءَ الْيَسِيرَ وَ عِدَّتُهَا حَيْضَتَانِ وَ إِنْ كَانَتْ لَا تَحِيضُ فَخَمْسَةٌ وَ أَرْبَعُونَ يَوْماً فَأَتَيْتُ بِالْكِتَابِ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَعَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ صَدَقَ وَ أَقَرَّ بِهِ قَالَ ابْنُ أُذَيْنَةَ وَ كَانَ زُرَارَةُ بْنُ أَعْيَنَ يَقُولُ هَذَا وَ يَحْلِفُ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ إِنْ كَانَتْ تَحِيضُ فَحَيْضَةٌ وَ إِنْ كَانَتْ لَا تَحِيضُ فَشَهْرٌ وَ نِصْفٌ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Ismail Bin Al Fazl Al hashimy who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the <span class="iTxt">Mut’a</span>, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Meet Abdul Malik Bin Jureyh and ask him about it, for with him is knowledge about it (from me<sup>asws</sup>)’. So I met up with him and he dictated to me many things with regards to its Permissibility. So, among what Ibn Jureyh reported to me was that he said, ‘There is no time limit nor a number in it. But rather, she is at the status of the slave girl. He can marry from them as many as he so desires to, and the one with the four wives can (also) marry from them as many as he so desires to, without a guardian nor witnesses. So when the term expires, she becomes irrevocably divorced from him without a divorce, and he can give her something little, and her waiting period is of two menstruations. But if she does not menstruate, so it would be of forty five days’. So I came over with the writing to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and presented it to him<sup>asws</sup>. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘True, and I<sup>asws</sup> agree with it’. Ibn Azina said, ‘And Zurara Bin Ayn was saying this, and he swore that it is the Truth, except that he was saying, ‘If she menstruates so it (waiting period) would be one menstruation, but if she did not menstruate, so it (waiting period) would be a month and a half’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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