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Malik spoke about a mudabbar who said to his master; Free me immediately and I will give fifty dinars which I will have to pay in instalments. His master said; Yes. You are free and you must pay fifty dinars; and you will pay me ten dinars every year. The slave was satisfied with this. Then the master dies one; two or three days after that. He said; The freeing is confirmed and the fifty dinars become a debt against him. His testimony is permitted; his inviolability as a free man is confirmed; as are his inheritance and his liability to the full hudud punishments. The death of his master; however; does not reduce the debt for him at all. Malik said that if a man who made his slave a mudabbar died and he had some property at hand and some absent property; and in the property at hand there was not enough in the third he was allowed to bequeath to cover the value of the mudabbar; the mudabbar was kept there together with this property; and his tax kharaj was gathered until the master absent property was clear. Then if a third of what his master left would cover his value; he was freed with his property and what had gathered of his tax. If there was not enough to cover his value in what his master had left; as much of him was freed as the third would allow; and his property was left in his hands.