to an heir, his manumission would be void, and his inheritance would be void due to the invalidity of his manumission; thus, making him an heir would lead to the invalidation of his right to inherit. We have affirmed his manumission without granting him inheritance so that it does not lead to that result. The doctrine of Abu Hanifa and his two companions on this matter is the same as their doctrine regarding when he owns him without compensation. Our evidence for his manumission is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): "Whoever owns a relative within a prohibited degree of consanguinity, he becomes free." This is because it is an ownership that occurred alongside something that conflicts with it, so it was nullified, just like the ownership of a marriage contract alongside the ownership of the slave (the corpus), specifically when one of the two spouses buys the other. When he is manumitted, he inherits because the cause of inheritance was found to be free from impediments, so he inherits, just as if he had inherited him. Their statement that his manumission is a bequest is incorrect, because a bequest is his act, while manumission here occurs without his choice or volition, and because the corpus of the manumitted person does not come to him; rather, its financial value is lost and ceases, so this becomes like its loss by the killing of one of his slaves, or like the dissipation of some of his wealth in building a mosque. An example of this is a sick person who is gifted his son, and he accepts him, and his value is one hundred, then the sick person dies, leaving another son and two hundred; he is manumitted and shares the two hundred with his brother according to the majority. According to al-Shafi'i, in the view narrated from him by someone other than al-Khabri, he is manumitted and inherits nothing. According to the two companions of Abu Hanifa, he is manumitted and has half the estate, so its value is calculated against him and fifty remains for him. If the remainder of the estate is fifty, then according to us he is manumitted and has half of the fifty; this is the view of Malik. According to Abu Hanifa, half of him is manumitted and he must work for the remainder, and the whole fifty belongs to his brother.