For the legal punishment is negated for the one performing the intercourse due to the doubt of ownership, so it is also negated for the person with whom the intercourse occurred, just like intercourse with a jointly owned slave woman. Furthermore, ownership is among the category of correlatives; if it is established for one of the two correlatives, it is established for the other, and the same applies to its doubt. It is not correct to use the intercourse with a father's slave woman as an analogy; [because the son has no ownership in her, nor is there a doubt of ownership, unlike our issue. Ibn Abi Musa mentioned an opinion regarding intercourse with a father's] (25) and mother's slave woman, that he is not subject to a legal punishment; because he is not liable for the theft of his property, resembling the father. However, the first opinion is more correct, and it is the view of the general body of scholars as far as we know. The second case: If he has intercourse with his wife's slave woman with her permission, he is flogged one hundred times, but he is not stoned if he is previously married (thayyib), nor is he banished if he is unmarried (bikr). If she had not made her lawful for him, then he is an adulterer, and his ruling is the same as the ruling for one who commits adultery with the slave woman of a stranger. It is narrated from al-Nakha'i that he is subject to a discretionary punishment (ta'zir), and no legal punishment is upon him; because he owns his wife, so he had a doubt regarding her possession. From Umar, Ali, 'Ata', Qatada, al-Shafi'i, and Malik, it is narrated that it is like intercourse with a foreign woman, regardless of whether she made her lawful for him or not; because he has no doubt regarding her, so it resembles intercourse with his sister's slave woman, and because it is the legitimization of intercourse with someone forbidden to him, so it does not constitute a doubt, like the authorization of other owners. From Ibn Mas'ud and al-Hasan, it is reported that if he coerced her, he must pay the equivalent of her value, and she is manumitted; but if she obeyed him, he must pay the equivalent of her value and he becomes her owner; because this is narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) (26), and Ibn 'Abd al-Barr narrated it and said (27): This is a sound (sahih) hadith. Our argument is what Abu Dawud narrated (28) with his chain of transmission from Habib ibn Salim, that a man known as 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hunayn had intercourse with his wife's slave woman, and he was brought before al-Nu'man ibn Bashir while he was the governor of Kufa. He said: I shall judge