Emancipating a Slave who is jointly owned, buying a relative, and emancipating during an illness - Section 2 — Mishkat al-Masabih 3399

‘Amr b. Shu'aib, on his father's authority, told that this grandfather reported the Prophet as saying, “A slave who has entered into an agreement to purchase his freedom is a slave as long as a dirham of the agreed price remains to be paid." Abu Dawud transmitted it.