The Hadīth means that if a slave marries without the permission of his master, his marriage is invalid and the contract is consequently null and void. The slave would therefore be considered as a fornicator. So, the marriage must be nullified and the slave must be separated from the woman he married without his master’s permission, because slaves are not entitled to get married without their masters’ approval.

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• I advise you to treat women kindly, for the woman was created from a rib, and the most crooked part of the rib is its uppermost part. If you try to straighten it, you will break it; and if you leave it, it will remain crooked. So, treat wom...
• A previously-married woman is more entitled to give a decision about her marriage than her guardian, whereas a virgin's permission is to be sought. Her permission is her silence
• May Allah curse the Muhallil (a man who marries an irrevocably divorced woman for the sole purpose of making her lawful for her ex-husband to remarry) and the Muhallal lahu (the ex-husband of the woman who was irrevocably divorced, seeking ...
• When one of you betroths a woman, if he can look at what urges him to marry her, let him do so