How is the estate distributed if the manumitted slave leaves twenty and a son?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Bequests

Book 31 · Issue 4 · Bab 1

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If the slave leaves twenty, two shares of his earnings go to his son, and two shares belong to the master. The twenty is divided equally between the master and his son, indicating that half of the slave is determined to have been freed.