What is the legal status if a person accepts Islam before being captured?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Jihad

Book 54 · Issue 4 · Bab 1

Open in Qurani

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If a person accepts Islam before being captured, his killing, enslavement, and ransom become forbidden. This ruling applies whether he accepted Islam while in a fortress, concealed location, narrow passage, or any other place, because he had not yet fallen into the hands of the plunderers.