Enjoying a slave woman and the meaning of “what your right hands possess”
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a man buys a slave woman, is he permitted to marry her? And what is meant by the phrase of Allah the Exalted, “except what your right hands possess”?
The Shaykh:
This is what is meant. If he buys her, or she is found for him, or he inherits her, and she enters his ownership through a lawful path, she becomes his property. Just as he owns her person, he owns her benefit. She is like a possession. If he buys her or owns her through skin, bone, or any other valid form of ownership, he may take her as a concubine.
The questioner:
If a woman buys a slave, is she allowed to give him access to herself?
The Shaykh:
No, he does not take any woman.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a man buys a slave woman, is he permitted to marry her? And what is meant by the phrase of Allah the Exalted, “except what your right hands possess”?
The Shaykh:
This is what is meant. If he buys her, or she is found for him, or he inherits her, and she enters his ownership through a lawful path, she becomes his property. Just as he owns her person, he owns her benefit. She is like a possession. If he buys her or owns her through skin, bone, or any other valid form of ownership, he may take her as a concubine.
The questioner:
If a woman buys a slave, is she allowed to give him access to herself?
The Shaykh:
No, he does not take any woman.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب قول الله - تعالى - : { حَتَّى إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ قَالُوا مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ قَالُوا الْحَقَّ وَهُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْكَبِيرُ } — islamhouse.com (1:10:40)
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