Who owns the lost property if the master frees the slave after the slave initially takes the property?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Lost-and-Found Property

Book 29 · Issue 7 · Bab 1

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If the master frees his slave after the slave takes the lost property, the master still has the right to reclaim the property from the newly freed man because it is derived from the slave's acquisition, which belonged to the master.