3426 — Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us, ʿIkrimah narrated to us, Ṭāriq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī narrated to me, saying:
Rāfiʿ ibn Rifāʿah came to the gathering of the Anṣār and said: "The Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade us today" — and he mentioned several things — "and he forbade the earnings of a slave-girl except for what she worked with her own hands," and he gestured with his fingers toward baking, spinning, and carding(1).

3427 — Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, Ibn Abī Fudayk narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh — meaning Ibn Hurayr — from his father
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= al-Khaṭṭābī said: The people of Mecca and the people of Medina had slave-girls upon whom there were taxes (ḍarāʾib), serving the people — baking bread, giving water to drink, and performing other crafts — and they would pay the tax to their masters. When slave-girls entered into such occupations and exposed themselves in such a manner, while they were going out and had taxes upon them, it could not be ruled out that some of them — or some among them — might commit fornication and earn through illicit sexual relations. So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded abstaining from their earnings, and whenever their work had no known legitimate means by which they earned, the prohibition is more emphatic and the disapproval more severe.
And permission has come regarding the earnings of a slave-girl when she has a craft in her hands. Abū Dāwūd narrated it in this chapter — we say: meaning the hadith that follows.

(1) Its chain is weak due to the unknown status of Ṭāriq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī. Regarding this Rāfiʿ ibn Rifāʿah, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said in al-Istīʿāb (740): His companionship (of the Prophet) is not established. al-Mizzī said in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, in the biography of Rāfiʿ ibn Rifāʿah: This Rāfiʿ is unknown, and what is preserved in this matter is the hadith of Hurayr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, from his grandfather Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj. We say: meaning the hadith that follows in the author's collection. ʿIkrimah: he is Ibn ʿAmmār al-Yamāmī.
It was also narrated by Aḥmad (18998), al-Ḥākim 2/42, al-Bayhaqī 6/126, and Ibn al-Athīr in Usd al-Ghābah 2/191, via the path of Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, with this chain. The name of Rāfiʿ ibn Rifāʿah appears in al-Ḥākim as: Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ. Al-Ḥākim declared it authentic, but al-Dhahabī criticized him: Ṭāriq has weakness in him, and he did not mention that he heard from Rifāʿah.