half, and with half-freedom, half of the completion of two-thirds. Regarding address and textual revelation, a free woman has a quarter and a sixth, and the other has a sixth; this is because half of one of them excludes the free woman from half of a sixth, so there remains for her a quarter and a sixth, and the free woman excludes her from a full sixth, so there remains for her a sixth. If half of her is a slave, and with them there is an agnate, they have a quarter of the wealth and a sixth of it between them; because were they both free, they would have two-thirds, and if the elder alone were free, she would have the half, and likewise for the younger, and if they were both slave-girls, the wealth would be for the agnate. Thus, they had a share and two-thirds, so they have a quarter of that, which is a quarter and a sixth. Its method by expansion is to say: if they were both free, the issue is from three; if the elder alone were free, it is from two, and likewise if the younger alone were free. If they were both slave-girls, it is from one share. You multiply two by three, which is six, then [in the four states it is twenty-four]. For the elder, she has half the wealth in one state, which is three, and a third of it in one state, which is two shares; she ends up with five out of twenty-four, and the other has the same. For the agnate, he has the wealth in one state, the half in two states, and the third in one state, which is fourteen shares out of twenty-four. Whoever combines freedom in both of them gives them the half, and the remainder is for the agnate. If there is no agnate, you relegate them to the estimation of return (radd), so their ruling is the ruling of two individuals, half of each of whom is free, according to what we have stated. For three daughters of a son descending in rank, half of each of whom is free, and an agnate: the first has a quarter, the second has a sixth (because if she were free, she would have a third), and the third has half of a sixth, according to the opinion of the Basrans; because you say to the lowest: 'If you were both slave-girls, you would have the half, and if one of you were free, you would have the sixth, so there is a third between them; the superior one excludes you from a quarter, and the second from half of a sixth, so there remains for you a sixth if you were free, and since half of you is free, you have half of that.' According to the opinion of textual estimation (tanzil), the third has half of an eighth and a third of it; this is because if we estimated each one as being free alone, she would have the half. These are three states of two sons. If they were slave-girls, the wealth would be for the agnate. If they were