Prophet Muhammad and Prostitution in Qur'an 24:33

Please support:   / nabiasli   https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/NabiA... Qur'an, Surah An-Nur (24), ayat 33. And let those who do not have the means to marry keep themselves chaste until Allah enriches them out of His bounty. And if any of those ˹bondspeople˺ in your possession desires a contract ˹to buy their own freedom˺, make it possible for them, if you find goodness in them. And give them some of Allah’s wealth which He has granted you. Do not force your ˹slave˺ girls into prostitution for your own worldly gains while they wish to remain chaste. And if someone coerces them, then after such a coercion Allah is certainly All-Forgiving, Most Merciful ˹to them˺. https://sunnah.com/bukhari/67 == find Chapter 25 in Arabic, not translated into English. Chapter: "Forbidden to you (for marriage) are: your mothers, your daughters..." وَقَالَ أَنَسٌ: {وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ} ذَوَاتُ الأَزْوَاجِ الْحَرَائِرُ حَرَامٌ إِلاَّ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ لاَ يَرَى بَأْسًا أَنْ يَنْزِعَ الرَّجُلُ جَارِيَتَهُ مِنْ عَبْدِهِ. Anas said: The meaning of the Quranic verse: {وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ} Married free women are forbidden to you except your married slave women that your right hands possess. But there is no problem if a man (i.e. the owner) takes his (married) female slave (for himself) from his male slave. Tafsir Ibn Kathir Q 24:33 regarding 'slave girls and prostitution' The Prohibition of Forcing One's Slave-Girls to Commit Zina Allah's saying: وَلَا تُكْرِهُوا فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ (And force not your slave-girls to prostitution...) Among the people of the Jahiliyyah, there were some who, if he had a slave-girl, he would send her out to commit Zina and would charge money for that, which he would take from her every time. When Islam came, Allah forbade the believers to do that. The reason why this Ayah was revealed, according to the reports of a number of earlier and later scholars of Tafsir, had to do with 'Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Salul. He had slave-girls whom he used to force into prostitution so that he could take their earnings and because he wanted them to have children which would enhance his status, or so he claimed. Reports Narrated on This Topic In his Musnad, Al-Hafiz Abu Bakr Ahmad bin 'Amr bin 'Abd Al-Khaliq Al-Bazzar, may Allah have mercy on him, recorded that Az-Zuhri said, "'Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Salul had a slave-girl whose name was Mu'adhah, whom he forced into prostitution. When Islam came, the Ayah وَلَا تُكْرِهُوا فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ (And force not your slave-girls to prostitution...) was revealed." Al-A'mash narrated from Abu Sufyan that Jabir said concerning this Ayah, "This was revealed about a slave-girl belonging to 'Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Salul whose name was Musaykah. He used to force her to commit immoral actions, but there was nothing wrong with her and she refused. Then Allah revealed this Ayah: وَلَا تُكْرِهُوا فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ (And force not your slave-girls to prostitution,) until His saying; وَمَن يُكْرِههُّنَّ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ مِن بَعْدِ إِكْرَاهِهِنَّ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ (But if anyone compels them, then after such compulsion, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.)" An-Nasa'i also recorded something similar. Muqatil bin Hayyan said, "I heard – and Allah knows best – that this Ayah was revealed about two men who used to force two slave-girls of theirs (into prostitution). One of them was called Musaykah who belonged to [the Ansari], and Umaymah the mother of Musaykah belonged to 'Abdullah bin Ubayy. Mu'adhah and Arwa were in the same situation. Then Musaykah and her mother came to the Prophet ﷺ and told him about that. Then Allah revealed: وَلَا تُكْرِهُوا فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ (And force not your slave-girls to prostitution), meaning Zina. إِنْ أَرَدْنَ تَحَصُّنًا (if they desire chastity,) means, if they want to be chaste, which is the case with the majority of slave-girls. لِّتَبْتَغُوا عَرَضَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا (in order that you may make a gain in the goods of this worldly life.) meaning, from the money they earn and their children. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the money earned by the cupper, the prostitute and the fortune-teller. According to another report: مَهْرُ الْبَغِيِّ خَبِيثٌ وَكَسْبُ الْحَجَّامِ خَبِيثٌ، وَثَمَنُ الْكَلْبِ خَبِيثٌ (The earnings of a prostitute are evil, the earnings of a cupper are evil, and the price of a dog is evil.) وَمَن يُكْرِههُّنَّ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ مِن بَعْدِ إِكْرَاهِهِنَّ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ (But if anyone compels them, then after such compulsion, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.) meaning, towards them, as has already been stated in the Hadith narrated from Jabir. Ibn Abi Talhah narrated that Ibn 'Abbas said, "If you do that, then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful, and their sin will be on the one who forced them to do that." This was also the view of Mujahid, 'Ata' Al-Khurasani, Al-A'mash and Qatadah.