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[quote]Mustadrak records:

Musab bin Abdullah Zubairi says that the Holy Prophet married Maria Bint Sham’oon. And this is the Maria which the ruler of Alexandria gave to the Holy Prophet, as a gift. Her sister, Sereen, also came along with her as a gift to the Holy Prophet. Both these ladies were escorted by a castrated slave named Maboor. The Holy Prophet (pbuh) gave Sereen to Hassan (rta). Al-Maqooqas was of the tribe Qibti, who were Christians. (Mustadrak, 4:41 No.6819)

From the words, as a gift to the Holy Prophet (pbuh), one gets the impression that Maria was a slave. However, the fact that he married her negates the notion of her being a slave, in my humble opinion. Furthermore, she was escorted by a castrated slave – a precautious act that could only be undertaken to protect the honor of free and modest ladies. A king could not have been so sensitive in case of slave women. Another fact which needs due consideration is that Maqooqas has been told as Qibti as Maria herself was. In the first report also, as quoted above, Maria has been described in words ‘from among the royal family’. This conclusively shows that she was not a slave girl; indeed, the Holy Prophet (pbuh) married her [1].

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