Is it permissible for a slave girl to refuse intercourse with her master based on the verse: "And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution if they desire chastity," and have other narrations been reported confirming this?
What the questioner referred to is incorrect. The noble verse: ﴿And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution if they desire chastity, in order to seek the ephemeral goods of worldly life. And whoever compels them – then indeed, Allah is, after their compulsion, Forgiving and Merciful﴾ [An-Nur: 33], was revealed concerning Abdullah ibn Ubayy, who used to compel his slave girls to prostitution (zina) to earn money. His slave girls refused to commit zina after the arrival of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, so they complained to him, and then the verse was revealed. And prostitution (al-bigha') in the verse means zina, and not sexual intercourse with a husband or master. For Allah Almighty permitted the master to have sexual intercourse with his slave girl as with a wife, by His saying: ﴿And those who guard their private parts Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed﴾ [Al-Mu’minun: 6].
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