Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated that Abu Nahshal ibn Aswad said to Qasim ibn Muhammad: I saw my slave-girl naked in the moonlight, so I lifted her legs and prepared for intercourse. She said: I am menstruating. So I stood up. Now, may I give this slave-girl as a gift to my son so that he may have intercourse with her? Qasim ibn Muhammad forbade it.

Abdul Malik bin Marwan gifted a slave girl to his friend. Later, he inquired about the condition of the slave girl. His friend said: I intend to gift this slave girl to my son so that he may have intercourse with her. Abdul Malik said: Marwan was more pious than you; he gifted a slave girl to his son and told him not to have intercourse with her because I had seen her thighs uncovered.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: It is not permissible to marry a Jewish or Christian slave woman. And what Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has permitted in His Book regarding marriage to women of the People of the Book refers to free women. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has said: "Whoever among you does not have the means to marry believing free women, then he may marry believing slave women." Allah has made marriage to believing slave women lawful, not to slave women of the People of the Book. However, it is permissible for the owner to have intercourse with a Jewish or Christian slave woman, but not with a polytheist slave woman.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: And indeed, in our opinion, Allah the Exalted has made lawful marriage only with believing slave women, and has not made lawful marriage with slave women from the People of the Book, that is, Jewish and Christian slave women.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: A Jewish or Christian slave girl is lawful for her master due to possession by right hand (personal ownership). Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that it is not lawful to have intercourse with a Magian slave girl due to possession by right hand.

Saeed bin Musayyib said that by «محصنات» are meant those women who have husbands; its meaning is that Allah has forbidden adultery.

Ibn Shihab and Qasim bin Muhammad used to say: If a free man marries a slave woman and has intercourse with her, then he becomes muhsan.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: I found the people whom I met saying that when a free man marries a slave woman and then has intercourse with her, that man becomes muhsan.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: If a slave marries a free woman and has intercourse with her, he will not become muhsan, but the woman will become muhsan. However, if the slave is set free and after his freedom he has intercourse with her, then the slave will become muhsan. And if before his freedom, the slave leaves that woman, he will not become muhsan until after his freedom he marries her again and has intercourse with her.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: If a slave woman is married to a free man, then her husband leaves her before she is freed, she will not be considered a muhsanah until she marries after being freed and consummates the marriage.