Muhammad's Marriages: Difference between revisions

This category of consorts of the prophet forms a separate category, since these women were not actually given over in marriage with an 'aqd-nikaah and a [[Mahr (Marital Price)|mahr]] to the prophet, but were rather his personal property, "what the right hand possesses." That is to say, explicitly, that these were his sex slaves, also known as "[[Women_in_Islamic_Law#Concubinage|concubines]]" obliged to have sex with him. As such Muhammad availed himself of them sexually although they were not actually granted the status of his wives in Islamic law. Never-the-less, they are also considered "mother of the believers", and the prophet's conduct towards them constitutes a fundamental building block of Islamic law vis-à-vis [[Rape in Islamic Law|sexual slavery]].