«إِنْ مَلَكْتُكَ فَأَنْتَ حُرٌّ»
“If I acquire ownership of you, you are free.”
Manumission presupposes a relevant legal relationship of ownership, which is absent at the moment of speech. The Hanafi analysis distinguishes a condition tied to the acquisition of that very ownership from an unrelated event.
If the condition is attached to acquiring the legal basis of the declaration, later acquisition can provide the operative occasion for the suspended effect. This is a different problem from an immediate declaration of freedom by a non-owner.
As in conditional divorce, the existence and nature of the legal cause or authority matter in addition to the tense or grammatical form of the statement.