the heirs from all his estate; that is, she takes precedence over everything, even over debt and a bequest—and inheritance takes even less precedence. The difference between her and a slave granted deferred emancipation is that such deferred emancipation is taken from one-third of the estate, like a bequest, whereas she is emancipated from the entire estate.

“The rulings concerning the mother of a child are those of a slave woman with regard to intercourse, service, hiring out, and the like, but not with regard to transferring ownership of her person, nor anything intended to bring this about, such as endowment, sale, mortgage, and the like.”

His statement, “The rulings concerning the mother of a child are those of a slave woman with regard to intercourse, service, hiring out, and the like, but not with regard to transferring ownership of her person, nor anything intended to bring this about, such as endowment, sale, mortgage, and the like.”

The author mentions three rulings. Whatever pertains to benefiting from her is permissible, such as intercourse, service, hiring her out, lending her out, and the like. As for what pertains to transferring ownership, it is not permissible, because this would result in nullifying her freedom. Nor is anything intended to lead to a transfer of ownership, such as mortgaging her, permissible, because its ultimate purpose is the transfer of ownership.

With the praise of Allah, Most High, the eleventh volume comes to an end.

It will be followed, Allah willing, by the twelfth volume, which begins with the Book of Marriage.