It was narrated that Abu Hurairah, Zaid bin Khalid and Shibl said: “We were with the Prophet and a man asked him about a slave woman who commits fornication before she is married. He said: 'Whip her and if she commits fornication (again), whip her (again).' Then he said, on the third or fourth time: 'Then sell her, even if that is for a Tope of hair.”