الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 6, page 170

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Aban Bin Usman, from Abu Asama, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Umar said upon the Pulpit, ‘What are you saying, O companions of Muhammad saww , regarding a divorce of the slave girl’. So no one answered him. So he said, ‘What are you asws saying, O owner of Al Ma’afarayy cloak?’ – meaning Amir Al-Momineen asws . So he asws gestured by his asws hand, two divorces’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, and someone else, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Fazalat Bin Ayoub, from Al Qasim Bin Bureyd, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said: ‘A waiting period of the slave girls is of two menstruations’. And he asws said: ‘When she does not happen to be menstruating, so half a waiting period of the free woman’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen asws judged regarding a slave girl whose husband had divorced her with two divorces, then had copulated with her, so he asws had him whipped’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Ra’ib, and Abdullah Bin Bukeyr, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said that: ‘The slave girl, and the free woman, both of them, when their husbands die from them, are both equal regarding the waiting period, except that the free woman would limit herself (for mourning), and the slave girl would not limit herself (for mourning)’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Noman, from Ibn Muskan, from Suleyman Bin Khalid who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the slave girl when she is divorced, what is her waiting period?’ He asws said: ‘Two menstruations, or two months, until she menstruates’. I said, ‘Supposing her husband dies from her?’ So he asws said: ‘Ali asws said regarding the mothers of the children: ‘They should not get married until they observe the waiting period of four months and ten (days), and they are slaves’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.