What is the ruling on a man acknowledging that one of two children born to his two female slaves is his son, when both slaves have husbands?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Acknowledgment of Rights

Book 20 · Issue 1 · Bab 1

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If the master of two female slaves, each bearing a child, acknowledges one of the two children as his, and both slaves have husbands to whom the child could legitimately be ascribed, the acknowledgment is invalid, and both children are ascribed to their respective husbands.