Accordingly, the Islamic State dealt with this group as the majority of fuqaha’ have indicat- ed how mushrikin should be dealt with. Unlike the Jews and Christians, there was no room for jizyah payment. Also, their women could be en- slaved unlike female apostates who the majority of the fuqaha’ say cannot be enslaved1 and can only be given an ultimatum to repent or face the sword. After capture, the Yazidi women and chil- dren were then divided according to the Shari’ah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State’s authority to be divided as chums.

This large-scale enslavement of mushrik families is probably the first since the abandonment of this Shari’ah law. The only other known case – albeit much smaller – is that of the enslavement of Christian women and children in the Philip- pines and Nigeria by the mujahidin there.

The enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers as the mushrikin were sold by the Companions (radiyallahu ‘anhum) before y the Companions (radiyallahu ‘anhum) before them. Many well-known rulings are observed, including the prohibition of separating a mother from her young children. Many of the mushrik women and children have willingly accepted Is- lam and now race to practice it with evident sin- cerity after their exit from the darkness of shirk.