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One man's slave married another?s slave-girl. Slave-girl's owner then frees her after the slave husband impregnated her. Who holds the child?s Wala? PDF Print E-mail
Kitabul Mukatab - Wala [Right of "clientship"]

Question 1854) - One man's slave married another?s slave-girl. Slave-girl's owner then frees her after the slave husband impregnated her. Who holds the child?s Wala?

A: The child is freed with its mother and its Wala is held by the one who freed the mother. It will not aver from him ever. The same applies if she gave birth to the child in less than six months.*

* Because it is certain that she was pregnant with it at the time of manumission.

~ al-Quduri ~