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Summary
Malik said: the agreed practice among us is that every manumission a man frees in a bequest he made, in health or in illness, he may retract whenever he wishes and change whenever he wishes, unless it was conditional freedom; if it was conditional freedom, there is no way to retract what he made conditional. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of the Conditionally Freed Slave (mudabbar). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on conditional freedom (tadbir) and bequest (wasiyya).
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People and things also explored
Muwatta 2348· Muwatta 2349· Muwatta 2350· Muwatta 2352· Muwatta 2353· Muwatta 2354· Muwatta 2356· Muwatta 2357
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.371
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 2355”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-26-2355/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.