A mukatab is a slave as long as anything remains due from him

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: The mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham remains due from him.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: The mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham remains due from him.

Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham remains due from him.

Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham remains due from him.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham remains due from him.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The mukatab remains a slave as long as even a single dirham remains due from him.

Sulayman bin Yasar says: I sought permission to visit Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). She asked: "Is it Sulayman?" I said: "Yes, it is Sulayman." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) asked: "Have you paid the kitabah payment of your masters that remained due from you?" I said: "Yes, a little of it remains." She said: "Then come in, for as long as even a little of the kitabah payment remains due from you, you are still a slave."

Mujahid says that the Mothers of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with them) did not observe hijab from a mukatab as long as even one mithqal or one dinar of the kitabah payment remained due from him.

Maymun says that Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said to a mukatab of hers whose kunyah was Abu Maryam: Come in, even if only four dirhams of the kitabah payment remain due from you.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that the prescribed punishment (hadd) of a mukatab and of a slave is one and the same.

Al-Sha'bi says that the prescribed punishment (hadd) of a mukatab and of a slave is one and the same, as long as even one dirham of the kitabah payment remains due from him.

Al-Zuhri says that as long as even one dirham remains due from a mukatab, he is still a slave.

Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) says that as long as even one dirham remains due from a mukatab, he is still a slave.

Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) says that as long as even one dirham remains due from a mukatab, he is still a slave.

Ata, Abdullah bin Ubayd and Nafi' say that as long as even one dirham remains due from a mukatab, he is still a slave.