Complex sentence: The earliest interpretation of the verse suggested that the "mukatab" became free after paying one-half of the agreed amount; another early deicsion attributed to the Meccan scholar Ata ibn Rabi Rabah was that the slave acquired liberty having paid three-quarters.
Split into simpler sentences: The earliest interpretation of the verse suggested that the "mukatab" became free after paying one-half of the agreed amount. An early decision attributed to the Meccan scholar Ata ibn Rabi Rabah was that the slave acquired liberty having paid three-quarters.