Muwatta 2314

Malik said: the best that has been heard about a contract slave: when he is sold, he has the better claim to buy his contract from whoever bought it, if he is strong enough to pay the price in cash, because his buying himself is manumission, and manumission takes precedence over the bequests that accompany it. As for when a man sells part of his share in the slave he contracted, there is no pre-emption for the contract slave, because it becomes like a settlement, and he may not settle with part of those who contracted him except with his partners' permission. If they permit him, he has the better claim to what was sold. ¹

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