Inheritance rights when a slave marries a free woman and they have a child, and the slave is later manumitted.

Chapter on Inheritance of Wala'

Al-Mughni

Book of Walā' (Patronage)

Book 33 · Issue 2 · Bab 2

Open in Qurani

Primary text

If a slave marries a woman of free lineage, has a child, the slave is manumitted, and then the slave dies, the manumitter of the father inherits nothing from the child because the child has no *Wala'* upon them (i.e., the *Wala'* follows the lineage of the free person). Similarly, if the child then dies, the father's emancipator has no inheritance rights over the child's estate due to lack of *Wala'*.