موطا امام مالك رواية يحييٰ
Muwatta Imam Malik (Riwayat Yahya)
كتاب المكاتبBook: On the Explanation of Mukatib (Contracted Slave)
بَابُ الْقَضَاءِ فِي الْمُكَاتَبِChapter on legal rulings regarding the mukatab (contracted slave)
Hadith 1295B7
قَالَ يَحْيَى: سَمِعْتُ مَالِكًا، يَقُولُ فِي الْمُكَاتَبِ يُكَاتِبُهُ سَيِّدُهُ وَلَهُ جَارِيَةٌ بِهَا حَبَلٌ مِنْهُ، لَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِهِ هُوَ وَلَا سَيِّدُهُ يَوْمَ كِتَابَتِهِ: فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَتْبَعُهُ ذَلِكَ الْوَلَدُ، لِأَنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ دَخَلَ فِي كِتَابَتِهِ وَهُوَ لِسَيِّدِهِ، فَأَمَّا الْجَارِيَةُ فَإِنَّهَا لِلْمُكَاتَبِ لِأَنَّهَا مِنْ مَالِهِ .¤
Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: If a person makes his slave a mukatab (one who has a contract of manumission) and that slave has a slave-girl who is pregnant from him, but neither the slave nor the master knows about the pregnancy, then when the child is born, it will not belong to the mukatab, rather it will belong to the master. However, the slave-girl will remain with the mukatab because she is his property.
