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===Muhammad Did not Consider Intercourse Between a Master and his Slave to be Zina (Adultery)=== | ===Muhammad Did not Consider Intercourse Between a Master and his Slave to be Zina (Adultery)=== | ||
As noted in a later section below, punishments for rape applied only to free women | As noted in a later section below, punishments for rape applied only to a man who rapes a free women or a slave he does not own. Similarly, zina (fornication or adultery) only applied to intercourse with women in those two groups, but not to intercourse with a man's own slave women according to Muhammad in this hadith graded Hasan by al-Albani: | ||
{{Quote|{{Abudawud|12|2258}}| 'Amr b. Shu'aib on his father's authority said that his grandfather reported: | {{Quote|{{Abudawud|12|2258}}| 'Amr b. Shu'aib on his father's authority said that his grandfather reported: | ||
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===Intercourse with Polytheist Slave Women Forbidden by Scholars=== | ===Intercourse with Polytheist Slave Women Forbidden by Scholars=== | ||
While Muhammad's men | While Muhammad's men seem to have had intercourse with captive polytheist women whom they had captured during the expedition to Awtas/Autas (see hadiths quoted above), most scholars ruled that this was later forbidden by {{Quran|2|221}} (which forbids marriage to polytheist women, but scholars inferred that this also applied to intercourse with slaves). Intercourse with Muslim, Christian or Jewish slaves was not affected by this restriction.<ref>[http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/index.php?page=showfatwa&Option=FatwaId&Id=272452 Ruling on sexual intercourse with one's polytheistic slave-woman - IslamWeb.net Fawah 272452]</ref> | ||
==Muhammad's Slave Women and Qur'an 33:50== | ==Muhammad's Slave Women and Qur'an 33:50== | ||