Can a male slave marry a female slave?

Chapter on What is Prohibited to Marry and Combining Between Them and Other Matters

Al-Mughni

Book of Marriage

Book 35 · Issue 1 · Bab 2

Open in Qurani

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A male slave is permitted to marry a female slave even if the two standard conditions (implied to be for a free man marrying a free woman, or perhaps conditions related to the status of the wife) are absent, because he is considered equal to her, just as a free man is equal to a free woman. Furthermore, a slave may marry two female slaves simultaneously or one after the other, because the fear of hardship or being overwhelmed is not a prerequisite for him.