If a Man Wants to Buy a Slave Girl, Can He Touch Her?

Hazrat Mujahid narrates that I was passing through a slave market with Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them). There, some people were standing by a slave girl and kissing her. When they saw Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them), they stepped back and said, "Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) has come." Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) went to the slave girl and touched her, then said, "Where is the owner of this slave girl? She is merely a commodity."

Hazrat Nafi' narrates that whenever Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) intended to purchase a slave-girl, he would place his hand on different parts of her body, and sometimes he would lift the cloth from her calf.

Hazrat Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) says that touching it and touching this wall are the same for me.

Hazrat Abu Ja'far made a transaction regarding a slave-girl, then touched her chest and breasts.

Hazrat Ata was asked about the slave girls sold in Makkah, so he said that it is permissible to look at them only for those who intend to buy.

When a slave girl was sent to Muhammad to be seen, he would only look at her shins and arms.

Ibrahim had a black friend. He wrote to him to buy a slave girl for him. He bought the slave girl, but her shin did not please him. When this friend found out, he said that he did not like to look at her shin.

Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people in a sermon in which he said: If I come to know that any person, while buying a slave-girl, has looked at her below the chest or above the knees, I will punish him.