In the Muslim world, the title of umm al-walad (Arabic: أم الولد, lit. 'mother of the child') was given to a slave-concubine who had given birth to a child acknowledged by her master as his. [1] .

Umm Walad (Arabic: أم ولد, also spelled Om Walad) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located east of Daraa in the Hauran region.

Umm walad (Arabic: أم ولد, lit. 'mother of the child') was the title given to a slave-concubine in the Muslim world after she had born her master a child. She could not be sold, and became automatically free on her master's death.

Umm al-walad (Arabic: أم ولد, lit. 'mother of the child') was a title given to a slave-concubine who had given birth to her master's child.Since this concubine was the property of her master, she could be sold or given away, like any other slave. This was also the view of Muhammad.

Apr 26, 2008 · “A blind man had a freed concubine (Umm walad) who used to insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and say bad things about him. He told her not to do that but she did not stop, and he rebuked her but she did not heed him.

Oct 19, 2017 · It contends that the umm al-walad played an important role in the development of Islamic conceptions of sexuality, religious authority, and humanity. It turns on a close reading of the treatise of the great hadith scholar and historian Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), regarding the sale of …

the umm al-walad, the old contemptuous feeling towards a union with a slave and the children born from it long remained. Among the hadiths which condemn the maintenance of concubines, one with a doubtless anti-‘Abbasid bias survived down to al-Bukhari (màn, bab 37; "ik, bab 8) and Muslim (/màn, trads. 1, 5, 7),

Jul 27, 2010 · This article concerns the figure of Māriyya al‐Qib iyya, the Coptic slave of the Prophet Muhammad who became his umm walad (the mother of his child). It undertakes close readings of the evolving historical representations of Māriyya as found in a broad range of Muslim biographical, historical and literary texts from medieval to contemporary ...

Nov 1, 2021 · Selling an Umm Walad (a slave who has given birth to a child of her owner) is not permitted according to the vast majority of the jurists. This includes the madhab of the sahaba such as Umar, Usman, Ali (one or earlier opinion), Ibn Abbas (one report), Aisha, Ibn Masud.

Apr 11, 2025 · Refers to a slave woman impregnated by her owner, thereby bearing a child. In the opinion of many classical jurists, such a slave woman cannot be sold.