What is the prescribed punishment when one of the two parties in fornication is a slave and the other is a free person?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Ḥudūd (Prescribed Penalties)

Book 51 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

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If one of the two parties committing fornication is a slave and the other is free, each party receives the punishment due to their status. This is because each is responsible only for the penalty of their own transgression.