Amah (أمة) – for female (Slave/Maid)

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ صَبِيحٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فِي رَجُلٍ تَزَوَّجَ امْرَأَةً حُرَّةً فَوَجَدَهَا أَمَةً قَدْ دَلَّسَتْ نَفْسَهَا لَهُ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الَّذِي زَوَّجَهَا إِيَّاهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَوَالِيهَا فَالنِّكَاحُ فَاسِدٌ

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al Abbas Bin Al waleed, from Al Waleed Bin Sabeeh,

(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah-asws regarding a man who married a free woman, so he found her to be a ‘أَمَةً’ slave who had concealed herself to him. He-asws said: ‘If she had married him from without her master, so the marriage is invalidated’ (an extract).[1]


[1] Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 66 H 1