A man who wants to buy a slave woman and touches her

Mujahid said: I was passing with Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) through a market of slave dealers. There some people had gathered around a slave woman, inspecting her. When they saw Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), they moved back and said, "Ibn Umar has come." Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) went up to the slave woman, touched her, and said, "Where are the owners of this slave woman? She is only merchandise."

Nafi' said that when Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) intended to buy a slave woman, he would place his hand on her buttocks and between her thighs, and sometimes he uncovered her shins.

Ibrahim reported from a man among the companions of Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: For me, touching her and touching this wall are the same.

Abu Ja'far bargained over a slave girl, then touched her chest and breasts.

Ata was asked about the slave girls who were sold in Makkah, and he disliked looking at them except for one who intends to buy.

When a slave girl was sent to Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) for him to look at, he would uncover her shins and forearms.

Ibrahim had a friend, al-Aswad, who wrote to him asking him to buy a slave girl for him. He did so, and he found fault with something in the slave girl's shin. When what he had said reached al-Aswad, he said: I would not like to have looked at her shins, nor to have such and such in exchange for it.

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people and said in his sermon: If I learn that any man, when buying a slave girl, has looked at her below the chest or above the knees, I will punish him.