Some Muslim moralists argue, that, as four wives are a sufficient number for one man, so also are four concubine-slaves, or four women consisting of these two classes together; but, notwithstanding what Sale and some other learned men have asserted on this subject, the Muslim law certainly does not limit the number of concubine-slaves whom a man may have, whether in addition to, or without, a wife or wives. Footnote 177: In like manner, when a Christian man marries a Jewess, the Muslim law requires the offspring to profess “the better faith,” namely, the Christian, if unwilling to embrace El-Islám. Footnote 178: Chap. iv., _vv._ 26, 27. Footnote 179: By the Hanafee code, a man may not marry a woman from whose breast he has received a single drop of milk; but Esh-Sháfe’ee does not prohibit the marriage unless he has been suckled by her five times in the course of the first two years. Footnote 180: A boy may be thus married; but he may divorce his wife. Footnote 181: Whatever property the wife receives from her husband, parents, or any other person, is entirely at her own disposal, and not subject to any claim of her husband or his creditors. Footnote 182: Kur-án, chap. ii., _vv._ 229, 230. Footnote 183: As the Mosaic law also allows. See Deut. xxiv. 1. Footnote 184: The witnesses must always be Muslims in accusations against a person of the same faith. Footnote 185: Yet many Christians and Jews in Egypt infringe the law in this respect with impunity. Footnote 186: In this the Muslim law differs from the Mosaic, which assigns a double portion to the first-born son. See Deut. xxi. 17. Footnote 187: In my summary of the principal laws relating to inheritance, in the former editions of this work, there were some errors, occasioned by my relying too much upon Sale’s version of the Kur-án; for I doubted not his accuracy, as he had several commentaries to consult, and I had none; wherefore, in my inquiries respecting these laws, I sought only to add to, not to correct, the information conveyed by his version. I have here given a corrected statement, derived from the Kur-án and the Commentary of the Geláleyn, supplying some words of necessary explanation (which are enclosed in brackets) partly on the authority of a sheykh who was my tutor, and partly from the valuable work of D’Ohsson, “Tableau Général de l’Empire Othoman,” Code Civil, livre iv. Footnote 188: