Muwatta 2358

Malik said of a man who made conditionally freed all his slaves together in his health, when he has no other property: if he made some of them conditionally free before others, the first is given priority, in order, until it reaches the third. If he made them all conditionally free during his illness, or said in a single sentence: so-and-so is free, so-and-so is free, so-and-so is free, if something happens to me from this illness of mine, or he conditionally freed them in one phrase, then they share the third among them and none of them takes priority over the others, because it is a bequest; the third is divided among them by shares. ¹

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).