A man who gives his mudabbar a manumission contract, then dies while something of it remains due

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A woman of Quraysh made a slave of hers a mudabbar (to be freed upon her death), then wished to make him a mukatab. The messenger wrote to Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: Make him a mukatab. If he pays off his contract, then that is that; and if something happens to you (that is, you die), he is free. He said: And I think that whatever he still owed would be his. (Bayhaqi 314)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that if a man sells the service of his mudabbar slave, whatever his master has already received counts as his, and whatever remains is not binding on the slave.

Something similar is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), except that this version adds: When your companion dies, you have nothing.

Dawud bin Hurayth said: I was present with Shurayh (may Allah have mercy on him), and he gave a judgment to the same effect.

Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Whatever remains due from him is also to be collected from him.

Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A mudabbar slave should not be sold except to himself.

Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked the sale of a mudabbar slave, and he saw no harm in making a mudabbar slave a mukatab.

Ata (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The service of a mudabbar slave should not be sold except to himself (his own person).