we know that this man bought the egg in order to gamble with it, we say: This is not permissible, because it falls under cooperating in sin and transgression.

His statement: “Nor [may a] Muslim slave [be sold] to a disbeliever.” It is not permissible to sell a Muslim slave to a disbeliever, because it is well known that a master has authority and dominion over his slave. Thus, if you sell a Muslim slave to a disbeliever, you place the disbeliever in authority over him and humiliate the Muslim before the disbeliever. Humiliating a Muslim is unlawful; therefore, it is not lawful for a Muslim to sell his Muslim slave to a disbeliever.

Selling a disbelieving slave to a disbeliever is valid—for example, when a person owns a disbelieving slave and sells him to a disbeliever.

His statement: “If he would not be emancipated by him,” meaning: by the disbeliever. If the slave would be emancipated upon the disbeliever’s purchase of him, then selling him to that disbeliever is valid. Who is emancipated upon being purchased by his buyer? It is a relative within the prohibited degrees of kinship (1): such as his son, his daughter’s son, his brother, his paternal uncle, his maternal uncle, his nephew, and the like. Thus, whenever two people are related within the prohibited degrees of kinship, if either one comes to own the other, the latter is emancipated. Therefore, if this slave is the disbeliever’s nephew