Muwatta 2247

Malik said: what makes this clear is that when a mukatab (a slave under a contract of manumission) enters the contract, his property follows him, even if it is not stipulated. The contract of manumission is the contract of clientage once it is completed. The property of a slave or a mukatab is not like their children: their children are like their own persons, not like their property, because the Sunna on which there is no dispute is that when a slave is freed, his property follows him and his children do not, and when a mukatab enters the contract, his property follows him and his children do not. Malik said: also clear from this, when a slave and a mukatab become insolvent, their property is taken, and their umm walad mothers, but their children are not taken, because they are not property of theirs. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Manumission and Clientage. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on manumission (itq) and contract of manumission (kitaba).