Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Saeed bin Al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about a mukatab (a slave contracted for manumission) who was jointly owned by three people. Some of them separated him from the contract of manumission, and some received the payment for manumission but did not separate him. That mukatab slave died and left behind a lot of wealth in inheritance. So, who will receive his inheritance? Hazrat Saeed bin Al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) replied: Those who had made him a mukatab should be given the remaining amount of the contract, then whatever remains after that will be shared among them.