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A Muslim man is permitted to have up to four wives<ref>''"If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice. "'' - {{Quran|4|3}}</ref> and an unlimited number of concubines and slave girls<ref>''"(Indeed We know what We have enjoined upon them about their wives) means, `concerning the limiting of their number to four free women, and whatever they wish of slave-girls"'' - [http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=33&tid=41951 Tafsir Ibn Kathir - Quran 33:50]</ref>. Unmarried men cannot be found guilty of adultery even if they sleep with another man's wife. They can only be found guilty of fornication which does not merit the death penalty in Islam. If an unmarried man sleeps with a married woman, her transgression merits death by stoning but his transgression merits 100 lashes and possible exile for one year.<ref>''"Narrated Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani: A bedouin came and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Judge between us according to Allah's Laws." His opponent got up and said, "He is right. Judge between us according to Allah's Laws." The bedouin said, "My son was a laborer working for this man, and he committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife. The people told me that my son should be stoned to death; so, in lieu of that, I paid a ransom of one hundred sheep and a slave girl to save my son. Then I asked the learned scholars who said, "Your son has to be lashed one-hundred lashes and has to be exiled for one year." The Prophet said, "No doubt I will judge between you according to Allah's Laws. The slave-girl and the sheep are to go back to you, and your son will get a hundred lashes and one year exile." He then addressed somebody, "O Unais! go to the wife of this (man) and stone her to death" So, Unais went and stoned her to death."'' - {{Bukhari|3|49|860}}</ref>

Adultery is the consensual sex with a man who does not qualify as one of the following:

A Muslim woman can only have one husband at a time.  She may not have sex with her male slaves.<ref>[http://www.englishtafsir.com/Quran/23/index.html#sdfootnote7sym - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Tafhim al-Qur'an (Quran 23:1-11, Footnote 7 #2)]</ref> She must have parental consent to the marriage. If not, sex between the couple is classed as adultery.<ref>''"It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that: the Messenger of Allah said: “No woman should arrange the marriage of another woman, and no woman should arrange her own marriage. The adulteress is the one who arranges her own marriage.” (Sahih)"'' - Ibn Majah Vol. 3, Book 9, Hadith 1882</ref>

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