Malik said: If a man remits from his mukatab at the time of death one thousand dirhams from the beginning of his contract or from its end, and the original contract was for three thousand dirhams, the mukatab is valued at the cash value, then that value is divided, and the share of that thousand from the beginning of the contract is given its portion of that value according to its proximity to the term and its advantage. Then the next thousand after the first thousand is given its share also according to its advantage. Then the thousand after that is given its share also according to its advantage, until the end of it is reached. Each thousand has an advantage according to its position in the hastening or delaying of the term; because what is delayed from that is less in value. Then, in the third of the deceased, is placed the amount that corresponds to that thousand from the value, according to the difference, whether it is little or much. Thus, it is according to this calculation.

Malik said: Regarding a man who bequeathed to another man a quarter of a mukatab (a slave with a contract for manumission), or freed a quarter of him. Then the man died, and then the mukatab died and left much wealth, more than what remained upon him. Malik said: The heirs of the master and the one to whom the quarter of the mukatab was bequeathed are given what remains for them upon the mukatab, then they divide what is left over. So, the one to whom the quarter of the mukatab was bequeathed receives a third of what remains after the payment of the contract, and the heirs of his master receive two-thirds. That is because the mukatab is a slave as long as anything remains upon him from his contract, for he is inherited by virtue of his enslavement.

Malik said regarding a mukatab whom his master emancipated at the time of death: He said, if the third of the deceased’s estate does not cover it, then he is emancipated to the extent that the third covers, and the corresponding portion of the contract is waived for him. If the mukatab owes five thousand dirhams and his value is two thousand dirhams in cash, and the third of the deceased’s estate is one thousand dirhams, then half of him is emancipated and half of the contract is waived for him.

Malik said: Regarding a man who said in his will: "My slave boy so-and-so is free, and make a contract of manumission with so-and-so," the emancipation is to be given precedence over the contract of manumission.