The number of slave women a man is permitted to have
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the limit on slave women? Is it like free women? That is, is he permitted to have more? Or what is the limit on the number of slave women a person owns? Is it like free women? That is, is he not permitted to have more than four slave women only?
Answer:
Who said that? There is no limit on slave women. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:3] and He did not set a limit. It is permissible for him to own several slave women, a hundred or a thousand, or whatever Allah grants him. Is there any obstacle to his taking a hundred slave women as concubines? They are not like wives, limited to four only. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the limit on slave women? Is it like free women? That is, is he permitted to have more? Or what is the limit on the number of slave women a person owns? Is it like free women? That is, is he not permitted to have more than four slave women only?
Answer:
Who said that? There is no limit on slave women. Allah the Exalted said:
those your right hand possesses
أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 077 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / النكاح / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (38:58)
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