Section: Ahmad said regarding a man who has a Christian wife: He may not give her permission to go out to a festival or go to a church, and he has the right to prevent her from that. The same applies to a slave woman. It was said to him: Does he have the right to prevent her from drinking wine? He said: He commands her, but if she does not accept, he does not have the right to forbid her. It was said to him: What if she asks him to buy her a zunnar (a belt worn by non-Muslims)? He said: He shall not buy a zunnar; she may go out and buy it for herself. He was asked about a Dhimmi who deals in usury and sells wine and pork, then converts to Islam while that wealth is in his possession, and he said: He is not obligated to dispose of any of it, because that occurred during his state of disbelief, so it is like their marriage during their disbelief when they convert to Islam. He was asked about Magian parents who make their child a Muslim, and he dies while he is five years old, and he said: He is buried in the graveyards of the Muslims because of the saying of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: "His parents [make him a Jew, a Christian, or a Magian] (38)" (39). This means that these two did not make him a Magian, so he remains upon the fitra (innate disposition). Abu Abd Allah was asked about the children of the polytheists, and he said: I follow the saying of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: "Allah knows best what they would have been doing" (40). He said: Ibn Abbas used to say: "His parents make him a Jew or a Christian," until he heard: "Allah knows best what they would have been doing," so he abandoned his view. Ibn al-Shafi'i asked him, saying: O Abu Abd Allah, [are they] the offspring of the polytheists or the Muslims? He said: These are the questions of the people of deviation. Abu Abd Allah said: Bishr ibn al-Sari (41) asked Sufyan al-Thawri about the children of the polytheists, so he shouted at him and said: O young man, are you asking about this? Ahmad said: We let these hadiths pass as they have come, and we do not say anything. He was asked about the children of the Muslims, and he said: There is no disagreement that they are in Paradise. They mentioned to him the hadith...