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Summary
Malik says: it is not lawful for a slave to buy himself from his master on the condition that he may take as client whomever he wishes, because clientage belongs to the one who frees. Even if the master permitted his freedman to take as client whomever he wished, that would not be lawful; and if it were lawful for the master to stipulate it or permit it, that would be a gift of clientage, which the Prophet ﷺ forbade. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Manumission and Clientage. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on clientage (wala).
Connections
- Part of
- Muwatta, Book of Manumission and patronage
- Mentions
- Malik ibn Anas
- Basis for
- patronage (wala')
People and things also explored
Muwatta 2240· Muwatta 2241· Muwatta 2242· Muwatta 2243· Muwatta 2244· Muwatta 2245· Muwatta 2246· Muwatta 2247
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.336
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 2269”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-24-2269/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.