If the master emancipates his mukatab while part of the kitāba price is still outstanding, or if the slave dies before settling the debt, everything he leaves behind reverts to the master.

Should the master appear to have received his due, declare, “He is free,” and it later become clear that the payment was not lawful, the emancipation is void.

Section: Kitāba

The mukatab owns his earnings, the profits he derives, and every transaction that benefits his estate—such as selling, buying, leasing, borrowing, and spending on himself and on any slave he may own.

Yet his ownership is incomplete: without the master’s permission he may not use his wealth to pay an expiation, travel for jihad, marry, take a concubine, make a donation, lend money, transact on preferential terms, pledge property, enter a muḍāraba partnership, sell on deferred payment, marry off or manumit his own slave, or write a kitāba contract for him. The right of walāʾ (successional allegiance) remains the master’s.

A child born to a female mukatab after the contract was concluded follows her in emancipation through payment1 or waiver1, but not through her voluntary manumission, nor if she dies.

It is valid for the master to stipulate the right to have intercourse with his female mukatab. If he does so without such a stipulation, he is disciplined, must give her a bridal payment, even with her consent, and—if she bears a child—she becomes2 an umm walad. Should she then complete the payment she is freed; otherwise she is freed by his death.

Transferring ownership of a mukatab is permissible.