Al-Kāfi - Volume 5

The Detestability of Living Single

7- وَعَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) مِثْلَهُ وَزَادَ فِيهِ فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَأَنَا لَيْسَ لِي أَهْلٌ فَقَالَ أَلَيْسَ لَكَ جَوَارِي أَوْ قَالَ أُمَّهَاتُ أَوْلادٍ قَالَ بَلَى قَالَ فَأَنْتَ لَيْسَ بِأَعْزَبَ.   

7. It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from his father from ‘ Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah who has said the following: “‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah has narrated from abu al-Hassan (a.s.), a similar Hadith and added the following: Muhammad ibn ‘Ubayd said, ‘I pray to Allah to keep my soul in service for your cause, I am not married.’ He (the Imam) asked, ‘Do you not have slave-girls’ or that he (the Imam) asked, ‘Do you not have mothers of your children?’ He replied, ‘Yes, I have.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘You then are not an unmarried man.’” 

Al-Kāfi - Volume 5

Book 3, Chapter #9