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If a woman is compelled to commit illegal sexual intercourse against her will, then no legal punishment is inflicted upon her, as is indicated in the Statement of Allāh تعالى:

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Darussalam · Volume 9

89 - THE BOOK OF AL-IKRĀH(COERCION) (i.e. SAYING SOME-THING UNDER COMPULSION]

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الحديث: 6949 ¦ الجزء: 9 ¦ الصفحة: 21

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6949. And Ṣāfiyya bint 'Ubaid said: "A governmental male-slave tried to seduce a slave-girl from the Khumus of the war booty till he deflowered her by force against her will; therefore 'Umar flogged him according to the law, and exiled him, but he did not flog the female slave because the male-slave had committed illegal sexual intercourse by force, against her will." Az-Zuhri said regarding a virgin slave-girl raped by a free man: The judge has to fine the adulterer as much money as is equal to the price of the female-slave and the adulterer has to be flogged (according to the Islāmic Law); but if the slave woman is a matron, then, according to the verdict of the Imām, the adulterer is not fined but he has to receive the legal punishment (according to the Islāmic Law).

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فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: {وَمَنْ يُكْرِهْهُنَّ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ مِنْ بَعْدِ إِكْرَاهِهِنَّ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ} [النور: 33] 6949 - وَقَالَ اللَّيْثُ: حَدَّثَنِي نَافِعٌ: أَنَّ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتَ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ، أَخْبَرَتْهُ: «أَنَّ عَبْدًا مِنْ رَقِيقِ الإِمَارَةِ وَقَعَ عَلَى وَلِيدَةٍ مِنَ الخُمُسِ، فَاسْتَكْرَهَهَا حَتَّى اقْتَضَّهَا، فَجَلَدَهُ عُمَرُ، الحَدَّ وَنَفَاهُ، وَلَمْ يَجْلِدِ الوَلِيدَةَ مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُ اسْتَكْرَهَهَا» قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ: " فِي الأَمَةِ البِكْرِ يَفْتَرِعُهَا الحُرُّ: يُقِيمُ ذَلِكَ الحَكَمُ مِنَ الأَمَةِ العَذْرَاءِ بِقَدْرِ قِيمَتِهَا وَيُجْلَدُ، وَلَيْسَ فِي الأَمَةِ الثَّيِّبِ فِي قَضَاءِ الأَئِمَّةِ غُرْمٌ، وَلَكِنْ عَلَيْهِ الحَدُّ "

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