Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 21881 — A man who buys something, part of it

Al-Sha'bi said that a man bought a slave woman for sixty dinars. He paid thirty dinars in cash and left her with the seller as a pledge for the remainder. Some days later the buyer came with the rest of the money and found that the slave woman had died. In this case, Sayyiduna Amr bin Hurayth (may Allah be pleased with him) ruled that what the seller had taken possession of belongs to the seller, and what remains belongs to the buyer.