Rulings on the slave-girl: sale, istilad and other matters

Question

Istifta’ from Manthur Ahmad A‘zami, “Hi Si Si” (?), P.O. Box 34, Dhahran Airport, Saudi Arabia, 23 March ’80. (1) There is permission in Islam to keep a slave-girl — so what are its conditions? Or was it a temporary permission that was later abrogated? (2) Is intimacy with a purchased slave-girl permissible? If it is permissible, then in what case? (3) If children are born, will they receive a share in inheritance? (4) If there is also a wife by nikah, is intercourse with the slave-girl permissible? (5)

Answer

(1) When jihad is waged in the Shar‘i manner, and in it enemies of Islam are seized and made captives, whom the Amir al-Mu’minin distributes among the fighters (ghazis) — such captives, if they are men, are called slaves (ghulam), and if a woman, she is called a slave-girl.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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