Sunan an-Nasa'i

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3363

Arabic hadith text

أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْمُحَبَّقِ، قَالَ قَضَى النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي رَجُلٍ وَطِئَ جَارِيَةَ امْرَأَتِهِ ‏"‏ إِنْ كَانَ اسْتَكْرَهَهَا فَهِيَ حُرَّةٌ وَعَلَيْهِ لِسَيِّدَتِهَا مِثْلُهَا وَإِنْ كَانَتْ طَاوَعَتْهُ فَهِيَ لَهُ وَعَلَيْهِ لِسَيِّدَتِهَا مِثْلُهَا ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Muhammad ibn Rafi' reported to us; he said: Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us; he said: Ma'mar narrated to us, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Qabisah ibn Hurayth, from Salamah ibn al-Muhabbaq, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) ruled concerning a man who had intercourse with his wife’s enslaved woman: ‘If he forced her, she is free, and he owes her mistress another woman like her. If she willingly consented, she becomes his, and he owes her mistress another woman like her.’

Translation notes
  • The ruling contrasts coercion with the woman’s consent: in the first case the woman is freed; in the second the report says she becomes the man’s, and in both cases he owes her mistress another woman of equivalent status.