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Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum and Muhammad Aqa, 1905
Contract for a temporary marriage between Ma‘sumah Khanum, the daughter of Ibrahim, and Muhammad Aqa, the son of Amin al-Shar‘, to last for one year in exchange for 5 shahis.
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Temporary marriage contract of Sakinah and Mulla ʻAli Akbar, 1898
Temporary marriage contract of Sakinah, daughter of the late ʻAli Asghar son of Qurban ʻAli, and Mulla ʻAli Akbar, the blind, son of the late Mashhadi Ramazan from Qumshah village, for ten lunar years. The mahr is eight tumans, with the condition that one-tenth of it be paid each year.
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Letter and marriage contract, 1898
The author talks about Muhammad Hasan’s insistence on getting married and having no other option, he had suggest to Muhammad Hasan to marry Sultan Khanum, daughter of the late Husayn ‘Ali, who was ten years old. On the back, there is a temporary marriage contract for ten years between Sultan Khanum, daughter of the late Husayn ‘Ali, and Mulla Muhammad Hasan, son of Mulla Asad Allah. The mahr is two tumans.
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Settlement of Aqa Husaynquli on behalf of Mahrukh Khanum, 1897
On behalf of his wife, Mahrukh Khanum, daughter of the deceased Haj Sayyid Ahmad Shalch, Aqa Husaynquli settled, with two of Sayyid Ahmad's temporary wives, whose custodian is Haji Muhammad Jaʻfar Aqa, an eighth of half of the village Kharah-chu and an eighth of a garden in Dizah Jarud for 160 tumans and 5000 dinars. Dated 23 May 1897.
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Questions and answers
Questions for Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Mujtahid Isfahani, sent from Rasht, regarding a woman who has ended her fast in Ramadan during what she had falsely thought to be her menstruation; withdrawal before ejaculation; rent in case of tenant's death; and renting Takiyah during ʻAshura
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Dispute between Shi‘as and Tatars over a marriage, 1899-1900
Report from the Iranian Consulate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from Astrakhan, about a dispute between the Shi‘as and Tatars over the marriage of Khalili's daughter. Tatars claim that since the girl's mother was not a permanent wife, according to Russian law, her child is a Russian national. But Shi‘as of Haji Tarkhan oppose her marriage to a Tatar man. After some disturbances, the consulate has decided to take the mother and daughter into police custody to protect their safety; along with a receipt of the document and acknowledgment of the consulate's effort
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Questions and answers
Questions for Sayyid Muhammad Yazdi Firuzabadi in Najaf, regarding the power of attorney to perform divorce; a father's permission for marriage or temporary marriage of an adult virgin woman; the amount of mahr in case the husband dies before consummating marriage; alimony for an adult woman in a marriage with an underage boy or vice versa; the waiting period for woman in case of the death of her husband before consummation; marrying a sister-in-law after a wife's death in case of the mother-in-law breastfeeding the man's son; alimony in temporary marriage and during pregnancy after...