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السنن الكبرى للبيهقي
Sunan al-Kubra al-Bayhaqi
كتاب النكاح
Book of Marriage
باب: لا يحل نكاح أمة كتابية لمسلم بحال
Chapter: It is never lawful for a Muslim to marry a slave woman from the People of the Book
Bayhaqi 14012 — It is never lawful for a Muslim to marry a slave woman
قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ: لِأَنَّهَا دَاخِلَةٌ فِي مَعْنَى مَنْ حُرِّمَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكَاتِ وَغَيْرِ حَلَالٍ مَنْصُوصَةٍ بِالْإِحْلَالِ كَمَا نَصَّ حَرَائِرَ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ فِي النِّكَاحِ، وَاللهُ تَعَالَى إِنَّمَا أَحَلَّ ⦗287⦘ نِكَاحَ إِمَاءِ أَهْلِ الْإِسْلَامِ بِمَعْنَيَيْنِ وَفِي ذَلِكَ دَلَالَةٌ عَلَى تَحْرِيمِ مَنْ خَالَفَهُنَّ مِنْ إِمَاءِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ، لِأَنَّ الْإِسْلَامَ شَرْطٌ ثَالِثٌ.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Because she (a polytheist slave woman) falls within the meaning of the polytheist women who have been made unlawful; she is not lawful, nor is there an explicit text permitting her, as there is an explicit text (permitting) the free women of the People of the Book in marriage. And Allah Almighty has made marriage to the slave women of the people of Islam lawful only under two conditions, and in that is evidence of the unlawfulness of the slave women of the polytheists, who differ from them. And Allah knows best; because Islam is (here) a third condition."
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نَصْرِ بْنُ قَتَادَةَ، أنبأ أَبُو مَنْصُورٍ النَّضْرَوِيُّ، ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ، ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، ثنا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: " لَا يَصْلُحُ نِكَاحُ إِمَاءِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ لِأَنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: مِنْ فَتَيَاتِكُمُ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ".
Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said that marrying the slave women of the People of the Book is not proper, because Allah says: "From your believing slave girls" [Surah an-Nisa: 25], that is, from the believing slave women.
