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Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Rabia Ibn Abdulrahman say that a slave could marry four women. Malik said; This is the best of what I have heard about the matter. Malik said; The slave differs with the muhallil if the slave is given permission by his master for his ex-wife. If his master does not give him permission; he separates them. The muhallil is separated in any case if he intends to make the woman halal by marriage. Malik said; When a slave is owned by his wife or a husband owns his wife; the possession of each of them is rendered void without divorce. If a man; for instance; is married to a slave-girl; and then he buys her; he must divorce her as a matter of course. They can then re- marry. If they re-marry afterwards; that separation was not divorce. Malik said; When a slave is freed by his wife who owns him and she is in the idda-period from him; they can only return to each other after she has made another marriage.