/30. Claiming An Illegitimate Son
Darussalam · Volume 3
13. THE BOOK OF DIVORCESunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
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Hasan
حسن
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Hasan chain
(قلت: إسناده حسن، وكذا قال البوصيري)
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2266. (Another chain) and he added: "And he was a child of Zinā, then it belongs to his mother's people, whether she was free or a slave. And that is reginning of Islam, as for what was distributed from wealth before Islam, then it has passed." (Hasan)
2266 - حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ بِإِسْنَادِهِ وَمَعْنَاهُ، زَادَ، «وَهُوَ وَلَدُ زِنَا لِأَهْلِ أُمِّهِ مَنْ كَانُوا حُرَّةً أَوْ أَمَةً، وَذَلِكَ فِيمَا اسْتُلْحِقَ فِي أَوَّلِ الْإِسْلَامِ، فَمَا اقْتُسِمَ مِنْ مَالٍ قَبْلَ الْإِسْلَامِ فَقَدْ مَضَى»
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In the pre-Islamic Age of Jāhiliyah, men kept slave-girls to make them earn money or for sexual indulgence. Often they would wrangle over the ownership of a child born of a slave-girl, the owner of a slave-girl and the adulterer each claiming the child to be his own. Islam ruled that the child belongs to the owner (of the slave-girl), not the adulterer.