الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 6, page 175

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Ra’ib, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws , said, ‘I asked him asws about a Christian woman who was under (married to) a Christian. So he divorced her. Is there a waiting period upon her similar to what is upon the Muslim woman?’ So he asws said: ‘No, because the People of the Book are in the domain of the Imam asws . Do you not see that they are paying the taxation to him asws just as the slave pays whatever he earns to his master?’ He asws said: ‘And the one who becomes a Muslim from them, so he is free. The taxation would be dropped from him. I said, ‘So what is her waiting period if the Muslim man intends to marry her?’ He asws said: ‘Her waiting period is a waiting period of the slave woman, two menstruations, or forty-five days, before she became a Muslim’. I said to him asws , ‘Supposing she becomes a Muslim after her divorce?’ He asws said: ‘If she becomes a Muslim after her divorce, so her waiting period is a waiting period of the Muslim woman’. I said, ‘Supposing he dies from her, and she is a Christian and he is a Christian, so a man from the Muslims intends to marry her?’ He asws said: ‘The Muslim man cannot marry her until she observes the waiting period from the Christian, of four months and ten (days), being a waiting period of the Muslim woman widowed from her husband’. I said to him asws , ‘How did it become, when she is divorced her waiting period is that of the slave girl, and her waiting period became, when her husband dies from her, a waiting period of the free Muslim woman, and you asws mentioned that they are in the domain of the Imam asws ?’ So he asws said: ‘Her waiting period regarding the divorce is not like her waiting period when he husband dies from her’. Then he asws said: ‘The slave girls, and the free women, both of them are equal, when their husbands die from them, with regards to the waiting period, except that the free woman would limit herself (in mourning), and the slave girl would not limit herself (in mourning)’.

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