Malik related to me that he had asked Ibn Shihab about a slavewho was released. He said, "He gives his wala' to whomever he likes.If he dies and has not given his wala' to anyone, his inheritance goesto the muslims and his blood-money is paid by them."Maliksaid, "The best of what has been heard about a slave who is releasedis that no one gets his wala', and his inheritance goes to themuslims, and they pay his blood-money."Malik said that whenthe slave of a jew or christian became muslim and he was freed beforebeing sold, the wala' of the freed slave went to the muslims. If thejew or christian became muslim afterwards, the wala' did not revert tohim. "He said, "However, if a jew or christian frees a slavefrom their own deen, and then the freed one becomes muslim before thejew or christian who freed him becomes muslim and then the one whofreed him has become muslim, his wala' reverts to him because thewala' was confirmed for him on the day he freed him."Maliksaid that the muslim child of a jew or christian inherited the mawaliof his jewish or christian father when the freed mawla became muslimbefore the one who freed him became muslim. If the freed one wasalready muslim when he was freed, the muslim children of the christianor jew had nothing of the wala' of a muslim slave because the jew andthe christian did not have the wala'. The wala' of a muslim slave wentto the community of muslims.
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 38, Hadith 25
Arabic reference: Book 38, Hadith 1491