The number of slave women a person owns
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the limit on the number of slave women? Is it like free women? That is, is it permissible for him to have more? What is the limit on the number of slave women a person owns? Is it like free women? That is, is it not permissible for him to have more than four slave women?
Answer:
Slave women do not have a limit. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:3] and He did not specify a limit. It is permissible for him to own several slave women, a hundred or a thousand, or whatever Allah makes easy for him, or ten. There is no prohibition. If he were to take a hundred slave women as concubines, that would not be contrary to the ruling. They are not like wives, which are limited to four only. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the limit on the number of slave women? Is it like free women? That is, is it permissible for him to have more? What is the limit on the number of slave women a person owns? Is it like free women? That is, is it not permissible for him to have more than four slave women?
Answer:
Slave women do not have a limit. Allah the Exalted said:
those your right hand possesses
أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/115 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (49:10)
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