Maliks Muwatta Book 39. The Mukatab

Section : Judgement on the Mukatab. Malik related to me from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, “A mukatab is a slave as long as any of his kitaba remains to be paid.”

Section : Judgement on the Mukatab. Malik related to me that he had heard that Urwa ibn az-Zubayr and Sulayman ibn Yasar said, “The mukatab is a slave as long as any of his kitaba remains to be paid.” Malik…

Section : Judgement on the Mukatab. Malik related to me from Humayd ibn Qays al-Makki that a son of al-Mutawakkil had a mukatab who died at Makka and left (enough to pay) the rest of his kitaba and he owed…

Section : Assuming the Responsibility in Kitaba. Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us is that when slaves write their kitaba together in one kitaba, and some are responsible for others, and they are not…

Section : Severance in the Kitaba for an Agreed Price. Malik related to me that he heard that Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made a settlement with her mukatab for…

Section : Injuries Caused by Mukatabs. Malik said, “The best of what I have heard about a mukatab who injures a man so that blood-money must be paid, is that if the mukatab can pay the blood-money for the injury…

Section : Selling Mukatabs. Malik said, “The best of what is said about a man who buys the mukatab of a man is that if the man wrote the slave’s kitaba for dinars or dirhams, he does not sell him…

Section : The Labour of Mukatabs. Malik related to me that he heard that Urwa ibn az-Zubayr and Sulayman ibn Yasar when asked whether the sons of a man, who had a kitaba written for himself and his children and…

Section : Freeing a Mukatab if he Pays what he Owes before the End of the Term. Malik related to me that he heard Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman and others mention that al-Furafisa ibn Umar al-Hanafi had a mukatab…

Section : The Inheritance of a Mukatab when he is Set Free. Malik related to me that he had heard that Said ibn al-Musayyab was asked about a mukatab who was shared between two men. One of them freed his…

Section : Conditions Concerning Mukatabs. Malik spoke to me about a man who wrote a kitaba for his slave for gold or silver and stipulated against him in his kitaba a journey, service, sacrifice or similar, which he specified by…

Section : The Wala’ of the Mukatab when he is Set Free. Malik said, “When a mukatab sets his own slaves free, it is only permitted for a mukatab to set his own slaves free with the consent of his…

Section : What is Not Permitted in Freeing a Mukatab. Malik said, “If people are together in one kitaba, their master cannot free one of them without consulting his companions who are with him in the kitaba and obtaining their…

Section : What is Not Permitted in Freeing a Mukatab. Malik said about a man who had his slave in a kitaba and then the mukatab died and left his umm walad, and there remained for him some of his…

Section : Bequests involving Mukatabs. Malik said, The best of what I have heard about a mukatab whose master frees him at death, is that the mukatab is valued according to what he would fetch if he were sold. If…