Saby (taking slaves through war) is a great prophetic
Sunnah containing many divine wisdoms and
religious benefits, regardless of whether or not the
people are aware of this. The Sīrah is a witness to
our Prophet’s (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) raiding
of the kuffār. He would kill their men and enslave
their children and women. The raids of the beloved
Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) convey this
to us. Ask the tribes of Banī al-Mustaliq, Banī
Quraydhah, and Hawāzin about this.
Ibn ‘Awn said, “I wrote to Nāfi’, so he wrote back
to me saying, ‘The Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa
sallam) raided Banī al-Mustaliq while they were
not expecting it and while their cattle were out
drinking water. So he killed their fighters, enslaved
their children, and gained Juwayriyah. Ibn ‘Umar
told me this. And he was part of that army’”
[Reported by al-Bukhārī and Muslim].
After the Battle of the Trench, Banī Quraydhah
yielded to the judgment of Sa’d Ibn Mu’ādh
(radiyallāhu ‘anh). So Sa’d said, “I rule that their
fighters be killed and their families be enslaved.”
So Allah’s Messenger (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam)
said, “You have indeed judged in their affair by
the ruling of Allah” [Reported by al-Bukhārī and
Muslim].
The number of Jews killed in the battles of
Khaybar reached 93 men [Maghāzī al-Wāqidī].
Their women and children were enslaved, and
Safiyyah Bint Huyayy Ibn Akhtab – the Mother
of the Believers (radiyallāhu ‘anhā) – fell into
captivity. Allah’s Messenger (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa
sallam) set her free and married her [Reported by
al-Bukhārī and Muslim].
And during the expedition of Hunayn, Allah’s
Messenger (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) enslaved
from Hawāzin until the amount of slaves reached
six thousand [At-Tabaqāt al-Kubrā – Ibn Sa’d].
The scholars of Sīrah mentioned that the Prophet
(sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) took four slave-girls
as concubines, two of them being Māriyah alQibtiyyah and Rayhānah an-Nadriyyah [Zād alMa’ād].
The Sahābah and their followers in goodness treaded
upon the path of the Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa
sallam) after him. Therefore, we almost cannot find
a companion who didn’t practice saby. ‘Alī Ibn Abī
Tālib (radiyallāhu ‘anh) had nineteen slave-girls. Ibn
‘Uyaynah reported that ‘Amr Ibn Dīnār said, “’Alī
Ibn Abī Tālib wrote in his will, ‘As to what follows:
If something happens to me during this battle, then
my slave-girls whom I copulate with are nineteen in
number. Some of them bore me children, some of
them are pregnant, and some of them are childless’”
[Musannaf ‘Abdir-Razzāq].
Abū Sa’īd al-Khudrī (radiyallāhu ‘anh) said, “I had a
slave-girl with whom I used to practice withdrawal.
She bore me the most beloved of people to me”
[Musannaf ‘Abdir-Razzāq].
After all this and after the sun of the Khilāfah
radiated once again, and the winds of victory and
consolidation blew, and the Islamic State, by the
grace of its Lord alone, brought out the Islamic
punishments and rulings of the Sharī’ah from the
darkness of books and papers, and we truly lived
them after they were buried for centuries… After all
this, the ramblers dare to extend their tongues with
false rumors and accusations so as to disfigure the
great shar’ī ruling and pure prophetic Sunnah titled
“saby”? After all this, saby becomes fornication and
tasarrī (taking a slave-girl as a concubine) becomes
rape? If only we’d heard these falsehoods from the
kuffār who are ignorant of our religion. Instead we
hear it from those associated with our Ummah,
those whose names are Muhammad, Ibrāhīm, and
‘Alī! So I say in astonishment: Are our people awake
or asleep? But what really alarmed me was that some
of the Islamic State supporters (may Allah forgive
them) rushed to defend the Islamic State – may its
honor persist and may Allah expand its territory
– after the kāfir media touched upon the State’s
capture of the Yazīdī women. So the supporters
started denying the matter as if the soldiers of the
Khilāfah had committed a mistake or evil.
Thus, after the matter transcended its limits and the
barking of the charlatans – the wicked scholars – rose
upon the pulpits of deviance, it became necessary to
face their declarations with a declaration, but one
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