A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at, said, ‘I asked him asws about a man who bought a slave girl and there did not happen to be a husband for her. Does he have to clear her womb (make her observe the waiting period)?’ He asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Supposing she does not menstruate?’ So he asws said: ‘Her matter is difficult. So if he goes to her, so he should not make the water descend (discharge the seed) until it becomes clear whether she is pregnant or not?’ I said, ‘And in how much (time) would it become clear for him?’ He asws said: ‘In forty five days’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, form his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said regarding a man who bought a slave girl, there not being a companion of hers sleeping with her. Does he have to clear her womb?’ He asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘A slave girl who does not menstruate, how would he deal with it?’ He asws said: ‘Her matter is difficult, apart from that if he does go to her, so he should not (make the water) descend to her until it becomes clear for him, if there was a pregnancy for her’. I said, ‘And in how much (time) would it become clear for him?’ He asws said: ‘In forty five nights’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Hisham Bin Al Haris, from Abdullah Bin Amro who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah asws or to Abu Ja’far asws , ‘The slave girl whom the man buys, and she has yet to be an adult, or has despaired from the menstruation’. So he asws said: ‘There is no problem if he does not clear her womb’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hafs Bin Al Bakhtary, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said regarding the man who bought the slave girl from a man, so he was saying, ‘I did not sleep with her’. So he asws said: ‘If he can be trusted with it, so there is no problem if he were to go to her’. And he asws said regarding a man who sells the slave girl to a man, so he asws said: ‘Upon him is that he clears her womb before he sells her’.

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

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from one of his companions, form Aban Bin Uman, from Rabie Bin Al Qasim who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the slave girl who had not reached menstruation, and he feared of the pregnancy upon her. So he asws said: ‘He should clear her womb, the one who sold her, by forty five nights, and the one who buys her, by forty five days’.

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 regarding a man was sold a slave girl and she did not menstruate. He asws said: ‘If she was young and he does not fear the pregnancy upon her, so there is no waiting period upon her with him, and let him go to her if he so desires; and it was such that she had reached puberty and did not menstruate, so upon her would be the waiting period’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him asws about a man who bought a slave girl and she was menstruating. He asws said: ‘When she is pure, so let him touch her if he so desires to’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the man who buys the slave girl and she does not menstruate. He asws said: ‘He would isolate her for a month if she had been touched’. He said, ‘So what is your asws view if he would sell her and her owner claimed that he had not slept with her since she was pure?’ He asws said: ‘If he was trustworthy with him, so he can touch her’. And he asws said: ‘That is the difficult matter. So, if it was inevitable that he does it, so he should be careful he does not let the water descend into her’.

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

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from his brother Al Hassan, from Zurara Bin Muhammad, from Sama’at who said, ‘I asked about a man who bought a slave girl and she menstruated. Should he clear her womb with another menstruation or would this menstruation suffice?’ So he asws said: ‘No, but this menstruation would suffice. But, if he were to clear her woman with another (menstruation), so there is no problem. It would be in a state of preference’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Musa Bin Bakr, from Zurara, from Humran who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far asws about a man who bought a slave girl. Can he attain from her besides the overwhelming (copulation), and he has not cleared her womb?’ He asws said: ‘Yes, when it Obligates her, and she comes to be from his wealth. So if she were to die, it would be from his wealth’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Ahmad Bin Al Hassan, from Amro Bin Saeed, from Musaddaq Bin Sadaqa, from Ammar Bin Musa, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws regarding a man who bought a slave girl from a man with a specified price. Then separated. He asws said: ‘The sale is obligated and it is not for him that he sleeps with her and she is (still) with her owner until he takes possession of her, and he lets her owner know; and the price, when it was not stipulated, so it is cash’.

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