A slave who married a free woman and was freed after she bore him children: to whom does the wala of his children belong?

Ibrahim reports from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning a slave who marries a free woman, has children by her and is then set free; he said that the wala' of his children will be attached to him.

Al-A'mash reports from Ibrahim, and said: I think he reported it from al-Aswad, that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When a free woman is married to a slave and bears children, the wala' of her children is for the mother's mawali; when the father is set free, he will draw the wala' to himself.

Al-Sha'bi reports from Sayyiduna Umar, Ali, Abdullah and Zayd (may Allah be pleased with them) that they used to say: When a man attains freedom and has children from a free woman, he will draw their wala' to himself. The narrator said: I said to al-Sha'bi: What is the ruling on the grandfather? He said: The grandfather draws the wala' to himself just as the father does.

Al-Harith reports from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the wala' returns to the mawali of the father when he is set free. And he stated that Sayyiduna Umar and Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with them both) ruled accordingly, and that Shurayh at first did not rule accordingly, and later did so.

And he stated that Sayyiduna Umar and Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with them both) ruled accordingly.

And that Shurayh at first did not rule accordingly, and later did so.

Hisham bin Urwah reports from his father that a mukatab of Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) married an umm walad of Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him). He said: She then bore a number of children, and then he was set free. So Sayyiduna al-Zubayr and Sayyiduna Rafi' took the case to Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), and he ruled that the wala' belonged to Sayyiduna al-Zubayr.

Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Taymi reports that Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) ruled that the wala' belonged to Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him).

Al-Aswad reports from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that when the father is set free, he will draw the wala' to himself.

Ikrimah reports from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said that when a slave marries a free woman, the wala' of whoever is born from the womb is for the mother's mawali; when the father is set free, he will draw the wala' to himself.

Jabir reports from a man of the Ansar called Ibrahim, who reports from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that when the father is set free, he will draw the wala' to himself.

Amir reports that Shurayh would not give a ruling on drawing the wala' until al-Aswad narrated to him that Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) had ruled on it; then he too began to rule accordingly.

Ikrimah bin Khalid reports from Umar bin Abd al-Aziz, who said that the father draws to himself the wala' of his child.

Hisham reports from Muhammad that he said: The father draws the wala' of his son.

Yunus reports that al-Hasan said: The wala' returns to the father's mawali when he is freed.

Qatadah reports from Sa'id and Khilas that they said: When a slave marries a free woman and she bears many children, and he is then freed, he draws the wala'.

Abdullah bin Abi al-Safar reports from al-Sha'bi that he said: The grandfather draws the wala'.