Скачать или смотреть "Uncovered, Bare Breasted Women in Medina" - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on hijab and bondswoman

American scholar Hamza Yusuf speaks about the awrah of slave women in Islamic law. According to Muslim scholars, enslaved women/concubines are not required to cover their hair and breast. In traditional Muslim societies, slave women did not wear the hijab, Yusuf states.

Classical scholars reported that Umar ibn al-Khattab prohibited slave women from wearing the hijab and head covering like free women:

18.ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb (d. 238/852) – Anas b. Mālik: ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb saw a slave woman belonging to one of his companions wearing a head covering (mukhtamira). He asked her, “Has your master manumitted you?” She answered in the negative. He asked, “Then why are you wearing a robe? Put it aside (ḍaʿīh)!” When she refused, he hit her with his switch until she complied, proclaiming, “Do not imitate free women ever again!”35
19.ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb – Anas b. Mālik: ʿUmar came to his family one day and noticed that there was a woman in his house wearing a robe. When he saw her, he left. When he returned and saw her again, he left (inṣaraf) again. He did this several times, until she departed. He then entered, asking, “Who is this who has been bothering us today?” His wife responded, “What do you have to do with her? She is so-and-so’s slave woman.” When [ʿUmar] left he proclaimed to the people, “Do not let slave women resemble their mistresses! Do not dress them in robes such that they resemble free, chaste women (al-ḥarāʾir wa-l-muḥṣanāt)! God the [most] exalted said (Q. 33:59) “…O Prophet, tell your wives, your daughters and believing women to cover themselves with their robes.”36

Ibn Ḥabīb writes, “I did not see a slave woman in Medina—even if she was beautiful (rāʾiʿa)—with a covered head… Slave women [should] uncover their heads so as to be distinguishable from free women,” Ibn Ḥabīb, Kitāb adab al-nisāʾ, 229. Ibn Ḥabīb held that the ruling for slave concubines (sarārī) is the same as for other slave women (ibid.).

Source: Status Distinctions and Sartorial Difference: Slavery, Sexual Ethics, and the Social Logic of Veiling in Islamic Law by Omar Anchassi (20 Apr 2021)