CONCUBINAGE FORBIDDEN IN THE QURAN
As the citation in the image above shows:
1. The Qur’an explicitly forbade sex with slaves outside of marriage, even stating that those unable to marry should stay celibate and commanding honourable marriage not ‘lust’ whilst comparing concubinage to whoredom. (24:33, 4:25, 24:32)
2. Imam Fakhr-ud-deen Razi held this view based on the Qur’an. So this interpretation is not some modern ‘whitewash’ but a faithful reading of the Holy Book. Prof. Jonathan Brock came to the same view after careful academic study. He is a non-muslim scholar so is hardly ‘making excuses’.
3. The phrase ‘Those who your right hand possess’ is always used for both male and female slaves, when it is used for slaves at all. The terms for concubinage in Arabic did not appear in the Quran.
4. Concubinage and slavery was rampant thanks to the unislamic actions of Muslim Kings, and the current justifications of concubinage in Islam, found in our books of hadith, tafsir and fiqh formed in that context. They were completely against the actual text of the Quran which forbade slavery altogether.
5. The first book of Seerah is Ibn Ishaq is from around a century after the time of the Prophet (saw) by this time slavery and concubinage had become entrenche
6. Imam Bukhari was born almost two centuries after the Prophet (saw).
7. The Quran is mutawatir i.e. it is.mass transmitted orally and in memory as well as written form from generation to generation. We have many written records of the Qur’an from the time of the Prophet (saw) or his immediate successors. Historically and academically, it is unassailable that the Qur’an is more authentic than any hadith or seerah which are all ‘solitary reports’ being narrated mouth-to-mouth. Thus it makes no sense to use hadith or seerah as ‘proof’ against the clear text of the Quran.
8. It is a myth that any hadith mentioned in Bukhari & Muslim are unquestionable. Imam Dar Qutni and many scholars critiqued hadith in these collections. Even modern day Shaykh-ul-hadith Nasir Al-Albani accepted that there are weak narrations therein.
9. All hadith are ‘dhanni’ or speculative while the Qur’an is ‘qati’ or certain. Being ‘sahih’ in chain does not make a hadith certain. It simply means the compiler is satisfied about the narrators.
10. Early scholars such Imam Khatib-al-Baghdadi did not accept a hadith as ‘sahih’ just if met the conditions of a sound chain. They subjected the text to criticism to, and insisted no report that contradicts the Quran, common sense or the established Sunnah should be accepted. Imam Abu Hanifa was particularly strict in this matter.It is thus apparent, that concubinage/sex slavery is forbidden expressly by the Quran and no hadith or report contradicting this, should be considered authentic.