and did not flog the slave girl because he had forced her. Al-Zuhrī said concerning a free man who deflowers a virgin slave woman: “The judge assesses compensation for the virgin slave woman in proportion to her value, and the man is flogged. In the case of a previously deflowered slave woman, the rulings of the leading authorities impose no financial compensation, but the prescribed punishment remains due.”

This concerns the question of a woman forced into unlawful sexual intercourse and a consenting slave woman. This is not the place to discuss the dower.

He also cited the report in the two Sahīhs from Abū Hurayra, who said: “The Messenger of Allah said