Does a child born to an emancipated mother within six months of emancipation inherit the status of having been touched by slavery (massahu ar-riqq)?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Walā' (Patronage)

Book 33 · Issue 5 · Bab 1

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If the mother was emancipated by her patron and she gives birth to a child less than six months later, the child is considered to have been touched by slavery and his walaa' is established directly with the emancipator and is not transferred from him.