Talk:Umm al-walad

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• The early Islamic mawālī: A window onto processes of identity construction and social change By Elizabeth Urban.
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Bookku (talk) 09:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

This article is almost entirely false

The entire article uses mainly one source (Gordon & Hain 2017), and it's not clear to me whether it actually follows this source faithfully. There are several problems with what the text of the article says, as anyone with a surface level of knowledge regarding islamic history and fiqh would be able to show. There is almost not a single fact in the entire article that is completely true (even the Arabic term isn't translated correctly). I suggest this page be either removed or completely reworked with more sources. شاه عباس (talk) 14:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Can you give examples of problems? VR _talk 06:23, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

for example the idea that Shi'ite jurisprudence allows selling umm walads after having children. I can't name a single jurist who has said this, in fact the opposite is true. Secondly, the source of "Ali opposed Umar's ruling" is completely unclear to me. The whole article reads like some 18th century proto orientalist piece. شاه عباس (talk) 09:16, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

al-Daraqutni and al-Bayhaqi

IP 2a02:c7c:e83a:0::/64, you wrote to the article:

There are Hadith from Muhammad which prohibit the sales of Umm al-walad however the Hadith reported by al- Daraqutni and al- Bayhaqi was disputed by Ibn Kathir as he believed this was from Umar and not Muhammed

And your edit summaries for reinstating that claim:

... source clearly say it goes back to the muhammed which ibn kathir disputes

However, here, I copied what the source actually said:

Page: 307–308
The fourth hadith is relayed on the authority of Ibn Umar in which the Prophet prohibited the sale of the umm al-walad by saying, “Do not sell them, do not gift them, do not make them part of your inheritance; the master can take pleasure from her as long as he is alive and when he dies she is free.” However, other traditions reported by al-Daraqutni and al-Bayhaqi have Ibn Umar relay this tradition from his father Umar, not the Prophet Muhammad. Ibn Kathir believes that the traditions ascribed only to Umar are the most correct. To support his argument, Ibn Kathir cites the tradition found in the Muwatta of Malik in which Ibn Umar reported that his father Umar said, “Any slave girl who bears (a child) from her master, (the master) must not sell her, give her as a gift, not include her as part of his inheritance. He can take pleasure from her and when he dies she is free.” This tradition, almost identical to the one relayed earlier, is only narrated from Umar. In addition, similar to Malik, al- Shafi‘i states that it was the practice of Umar (taqlid Umar) that the umm al-walad could not be sold or given as a gift and that she is free after her master’s death. Thus, the early legal authorities of Malik and al- Shafi‘i both have only Umar’s decree that the umm al-walad should not be sold.

So, contrary to what your edit implies, al-Daraqutni and al-Bayhaqi were not saying that the hadith was Muhammad's remark, but rather that it was Umar's, which supports Ibn Kathir's argument. Do you understand? — Kaalakaa ^(talk) 10:27, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

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