A Woman’s Attorney Gives Her in Marriage to a Man Other Than What She Wanted

“About the case of a woman who appoints a man to form her marriage with so and so and he says, ‘I will do so only if you testify that I am your attorney;’ she testifies for him and at the time of ceremony he says to the man who has proposed marriage, ‘O so and so you owe such and such amount’ and he says, ‘Yes, I agree.’ He (her attorney) says to people, ‘Bear witness that this amount for her is on me and I give her in marriage to myself.’ She then says, ‘No, it is not an honor. The control of my affairs is in my own hand and I have not appointed you as the person in charge of my affairs. It was only because of not to verbally be embarrassed before people.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘He is removed from her. He deserves only a headache.’” Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Nu’man from abu al-Sabbah al-Kinaniy from abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), a similar Hadith.