Is prior sexual experience (*thiyubah*) in a female slave a defect?

Chapter on Selling the Musarrah (Animal with milk retained in udder)

Al-Mughni

Book of Sales

Book 12 · Issue 8 · Bab 5

Open in Qurani

Primary text

Prior sexual experience in a female slave is not a defect because it is the common state for serving girls, and absence of this state is not implied by the contract.