Was slave prostitution allowed?

## Forcing slaves to prostitution It is mentioned in this hadith ; > Jabir reported that 'Abdullah b. Ubayy b. Salul used to say to his slavegirl: **Go and fetch something for us by committing prostitution.** Then the verse 24:33 was reveled: > ... **لَا تُكْرِهُوا فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ إِنْ أَرَدْنَ تَحَصُّنًا** لِّتَبْتَغُوا عَرَضَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ... > And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, **if they desire chastity**, to seek [thereby] the temporary interests of worldly life So, according to this verse, it seems that it says you shouldn't **force** the slave women **if they want to desire chastity**. But that opens up the possibility: if they ain't desiring chastity, it is possible to tell your slave girls to do prostitution without force. Or am I misunderstanding it? Baydawi says in his tafsir: > تعففاً شرط للإِكراه فإنه لا يوجد دونه، **وإن جعل شرطاً للنهي لم يلزم من عدمه** جواز الإِكراه لجواز أن يكون ارتفاع النهي بامتناع المنهي عنه، وإيثار إن على إذا لأن إرادة التحصن من الإِماء كالشاذ النادر ## Was slave prostitution allowed? ---------- P.S: *This question was a bit broad so I removed a lot and created another [question](https://islam.stackexchange.com/q/40850/15201) with that which I removed.*