What women inherit of wala, and what it is

Ibrahim narrates from Sayyiduna Ali, Umar and Zayd (may Allah be pleased with them) that they would make women heirs of the wala' only of those whom they had freed.

Ibn Sirin said: Women inherit the wala' only of those whom they free or make mukatab.

Ibrahim said: Women inherit the wala' only of those whom they make mukatab, or whom those they freed have freed.

Al-Hasan said: Women inherit the wala' only of the one whom they free or whom their freed slave frees, except for the woman who has undergone li'an, for she inherits from the one whose lineage his father has denied.

Umar bin Abd al-Aziz said that women inherit the wala' only of those whom they make mukatab or set free.

Ata said that women do not inherit anything of the wala', except of those whom they make mukatab or set free.

Khalid reports from Abu Qilabah concerning a woman who died and left behind her mawla; he said: He is her mawla; when he dies, his heir will be whoever among the men is her heir.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said that women inherit only the wala' of those whom they set free or make mukatab.

Ibrahim said, through another chain, that women inherit only the wala' of those whom they set free.

Ibrahim said, concerning a man who makes his slave a mukatab, then dies and leaves male and female children, that the wealth will be divided among them according to their shares, and the wala' will be for the men and not for the women.

Abu Salamah and Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said, concerning a man who makes his slave a mukatab, then dies and leaves male and female children, that the wealth will be divided among them according to their shares, and the wala' will be for the men and not for the women.

Ma'mar reports from al-Zuhri that a woman set Sayyiduna Salim (may Allah be pleased with him) free, and he then entered into a clientage bond (muwalat) with Sayyiduna Abu Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), who took him as a son. Then he died, and his inheritance was given to that woman.