Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that if a person declares his slave woman as mudabbar, and after that she gives birth to children, then if that slave woman dies in the presence of her master, her children will remain mudabbar like their mother. When the master dies and there is room in one third of the wealth, they will be set free.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that the children of every woman will be like their mother, whether she is a mudabbirah, a mukatabah, a mu‘taqah ila ajal, a makhdumah, a mu‘taqat al-ba‘d, a gard, or an umm walad. The children of each will be like their mother: if she is free, then they are free; and if she becomes a slave, then they too will become slaves.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that if a slave woman is made mudabbar while she is pregnant, then her child will also become mudabbar. The example of this is that if a person frees his pregnant slave woman and he did not know that she was pregnant, then her child will also become free.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that similarly, if a person sells a pregnant slave woman, then the slave woman and the child in her womb will belong to the buyer, whether the buyer stipulated this condition or not.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that similarly it is not permissible for the seller to sell a slave-girl and sell her pregnancy, because there is deception in it; perhaps the child will be born or perhaps not. Its example is like a person selling the unborn child in the womb; such a sale is not valid.

Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said that if a mukatab or a mudabbar buys a slave girl and has intercourse with her, and she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child, then the child of each will follow his father; with his freedom, the child will also be free, and with his slavery, the child will also be a slave. If the mukatab or mudabbar is set free, then the umm walad will be like him and like his mother, and she will be entrusted to him.