When the female captives are distributed among those entitled to the spoils, intercourse with them is prohibited until their wombs have been ascertained to be clear—by one menstrual cycle if they are menstruating women, or by childbirth if they are pregnant.

Whatever property belonging to the Muslims the polytheists seize and take into secure possession becomes their property. If its owner recovers it before the spoils are distributed, he has the strongest claim to it. If he recovers it afterward, there are two reports: according to one, he has the strongest claim to it upon paying its price; according to the other, he has no claim to it, and the one who took it as booty has the strongest claim to it.

It is permissible to purchase from them the children of people at war, just as it is permissible to take them captive. It is also permissible to purchase from them the children of those under covenant, but it is not permissible to take them captive.

As for what a single person or two people capture, does the ruling of booty apply to it such that one-fifth is taken from it? There are three reports: according to the first, it does; according to the second, no fifth is taken from it until they constitute a military detachment of sufficient strength to offer resistance; and according to the third, those who captured it have no claim to it, and all of it is fayʾ (public revenue) belonging to the Muslims, as a punishment for having gone forth without the imam’s permission.

If one of the parents embraces Islam, their minor children—male and female—are thereby considered Muslim. This does not apply to their adult children, unless an adult child is insane. Likewise, if one of the parents dies, their minor children are deemed Muslim. If a discerning minor embraces Islam, his Islam is valid in his own right, and so is his apostasy; however, he is not to be executed until he reaches puberty.