His companions have also said that, in carrying out bequests, those that concern property and an unconditional, voluntary emancipation are likewise to be executed before hajj, although Mālik’s own statements on the issue are not uniform. This is the distilled outcome of his school.

All of what has been mentioned applies only when the testator has made all these bequests without stipulating that some of them precede others; if he does lay down an order, his stipulation must be followed. Whatever Allah—exalted be He—has made obligatory in His Book is more entitled to precedence than anything else.

If someone bequeaths a sum of dinars as charity for the manumission of a slave, along with hajj, jihad, and additional dinars either to specified individuals or to unspecified needy people, all of them divide the one-third proportionally, and none is advanced over the others apart from the exceptions already noted. In this field the companions of Mālik have expressed many divergent and even conflicting opinions.