What is the prescribed punishment for a slave (*'abd*) who commits fornication (*zina*) and is subsequently freed?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Ḥudūd (Prescribed Penalties)

Book 51 · Issue 1 · Bab 1

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If a slave commits fornication and is then manumitted, the punishment prescribed for a slave is executed upon him, because the penalty that became obligatory upon him is carried out. This is the ruling applied.