It is narrated from Rabi'ah bin Abi Abdur Rahman that a man, during the caliphate of Aban bin Uthman, freed all his slaves, and besides those slaves, the man had no other wealth. So Aban bin Uthman ordered that the slaves be divided into three parts. Then, whichever part the deceased's share fell upon, those slaves were set free, and the parts that fell to the heirs, those slaves remained.