Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 17048 — A man who owns two sisters as slaves

Al-Qasim bin Muhammad said: A tribe of the Arabs asked Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him): May a man have intercourse with two sisters who are his slave-girls? He gave a fatwa that it is permissible. This reached Sayyiduna Nu'man bin Bashir (may Allah be pleased with him), and he asked Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) about it, and he confirmed the fatwa. At this Sayyiduna Nu'man bin Bashir said: Tell me, if a man owned his own sister as a slave-girl, would it be permissible for him to have intercourse with her? Hearing this, Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: By Allah, you have opened my eyes. Go to those people and forbid them from doing this; it is not proper for them to do so. Al-Qasim bin Muhammad said: I said: It is only the bond of kinship, whether through manumission or otherwise.