because there is no evidence for attributing him to either of them, so he is like a child whose father is insane, he is not attributed to either of them. Abu Abdullah Ibn Hamid said: He is left until he reaches puberty, then he chooses to be attributed to one of them. If the qafah attribute him to both of them, he is affiliated with both. The requirement of the school (Madhhab) is that her waiting period from both of them ends with him; because his lineage is established from both, just as her waiting period ends with him from the one who is established as the father of both. If the qafah reject his attribution to both of them, his ruling is the ruling of one whose case is ambiguous, and she observes a waiting period of three menstrual cycles after her delivery. He is not disclaimed from them by the statement of the qafah; because the work of the qafah is in favoring one of the two holders of the marriage bed, not in denying the child from the marriage bed entirely. Therefore, if the holder of the marriage bed were one man and the qafah rejected the child from him, he would not be disclaimed from him by their statement. As for if she delivers in less than six months from intercourse with the second, and more than four years from the separation of the first, he is not affiliated with either of them, and her waiting period from him does not end with him; because we know he is from other intercourse, so her waiting period ends from that intercourse, then she completes the waiting period of the first, and initiates the waiting period of the second; because there exists that which necessitates a third waiting period, which is the intercourse from which she became pregnant, so two waiting periods become incumbent upon her, and the completion of the first waiting period.

Section: If a man marries a woman currently in her waiting period (mu'taddah), and both are aware of the waiting period and the prohibition of marriage during it, and he has intercourse with her, they are both adulterers, the penalty for adultery (hadd) is upon them, she receives no dowry (mahr), and the lineage is not attributed to him. If they were both ignorant of the waiting period or the prohibition, the lineage is established, the penalty is negated, and the dowry becomes mandatory. If he knew but she did not, the penalty and the dowry are upon him, and there is no lineage for him. If she knew but he did not, the penalty is upon her, she receives no dowry, and the lineage is attributed to him. This is only the case because this is a marriage whose invalidity is agreed upon, so it is like marrying those who are forbidden to him (dawat maharim).

Section: If a man khula' (annuls the marriage of) his wife, or dissolves his marriage, he is permitted to marry her during her waiting period, according to the statement of the majority of jurists. This is also the statement of Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, 'Ata', Tawus, al-Zuhri,