If Someone Frees His Slave Woman, Is She Obliged to Observe a Waiting Period?

Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with both of them) narrates that a slave woman with whom intercourse has taken place, if she is sold, given as a gift, or set free, she will observe a waiting period of one menstrual cycle.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that when a slave woman is set free, her waiting period (‘iddah) is three menstrual cycles.

Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when a slave woman is set free, her waiting period (‘iddah) is three menstrual cycles.

Hazrat Mak'hool (may Allah have mercy on him) says that when a slave woman is set free, she will observe an 'iddah of two menstrual cycles. Hazrat Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) says that she will observe an 'iddah of three menstrual cycles.

19860 - Al-Zuhri said: (Three) (1) periods.

Hazrat Ata (may Allah have mercy on him) says that when a slave woman is set free, her waiting period (‘iddah) is three menstrual cycles.