Father Marries a Woman and His Son Marries Her Daughter

“This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who divorces his wife who marries another man and gives birth from the second man; if her children from the second husband are lawful for the children of the first husband from his wife other than her. He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, it is lawful. 5 I then asked him about the case of a man who frees his slave- girl who marries another man and gives birth from the second man; if her children are lawful for the children of the man who freed her. He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, they are lawful.’”

“This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who has a slave-girl with whom he goes to bed seeking to have a child, but does not become fortunate to have a child and gives her to his brother as a gift or sells her and she gives birth to several children; if his children from a woman other than her can marry the children of his brother from her. He (the Imam) asked me to say it again. I said it again and he (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, it is not unlawful.’”

“I once asked abu al-Hassan (a.s.), about this case and he asked me to say it again and I said, ‘I had a slave-girl and I was not fortunate to have a child from her so I sold her and she give birth to a child from someone other than me and I have a child from a woman other than her; if I can give in marriage my child from another woman to her child.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You can give in marriage to her children who were before you, before she became yours.’”

“This is concerning my question before abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who marries a woman and his son marries the daughter of that woman. He (the Imam) said, ‘If her daughter was there before she married him, it is not unlawful.’”