“OAbu Hurairah. Learn about the inheritance and teach it, forit ishalf of knowledge, but it will be forgotten. This is the firstthingthat will be taken away from my nation.’”

“The wife of Sa’d binRabi’ came with the two daughters of Sa’d to the Prophet (ﷺ)andsaid: ‘O Messenger of Allah, these are the two daughters ofSa’d. Hewas killed with you on the day of Uhud, and their paternaluncle hastaken all that their father left behind, and a woman isonly marriedfor her wealth.’ The Prophet (ﷺ) remained silentuntil the Verse ofinheritance was revealed to him. Then theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ)called the brother of Sa’d bin Rabi’ andsaid: ‘Give the two daughtersof Sa’d two thirds of his wealth,and give his wife on eighth, andtake what is left.’”

“A man came to AbuMusaAl-Ash’ari and Salman bin Rabi’ah Al-Bahili and asked them about(the shares of) a daughter, a son’s daughter, a sister throughone’sfather and mother. They said: ‘The daughter gets one half,and what isleft goes to the sister. Go to Ibn Mas’ud, for he willconcur withwhat we say.’ So the man went to Ibn Mas’ud, and toldhim what theyhad said. ‘Abdullah said: ‘I will go astray andwill not be guided (ifI say that I agree); but I will judge as theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ)judged. The daughter gets one half, and theson’s daughter gets one-sixth. That makes two thirds. And what isleft goes to the sister.’”

“I heard theProphet (ﷺ) when a case was brought to him which involved the shareof a grandfather. He gave him one third, or one sixth.”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) ruled concerning a grandfather who was among us, that he shouldreceive one sixth.”

“A grandmother came to Abu BakrSiddiq and asked him for her inheritance. Abu Bakr said to her: ‘Youhave nothing according to the Book of Allah, and I don’t know ofanything for you according to the Book of Allah, and I don’t knowof anything for you according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ). Go back until I ask the people.’ So he asked the people andAl-Mughirah bin Shu’bah said: ‘I was present with the Messengerof Allah (ﷺ) and he gave her (the grandmother) one sixth.’ AbuBakr said: ‘Is there anyone else with you (who will corroboratewhat you say)?’ Muhammad bin Maslamah Al-Ansari stood up and saidsomething like what Mughirah bin Shu’bah had said. So Abu Bakrapplied it in her case.”

It wasnarrated from Ibn ‘Abbas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)gave agrandmother one sixth of the inheritance.

“By Allah, Iamnot leaving behind any problem more difficult than the one wholeavesbehind an heir. I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and heneverspoke so harshly to me about anything as he spoke to me aboutthis. Hejabbed his finger into my side or my chest and said: ‘O‘Umar,sufficient for you is the Verse that was revealed in summer,at theend of Surat An-Nisa’.”

“There are three things, if the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) had clarified them, that would have been dearer to methanthe world and everything in it: a person who leaves behind noheir,usury, and the caliphate.”

“I fell sick and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came tovisitme, he and Abu Bakr with him, and they came walking. I had lostconsciousness, so the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) performed ablution andpoured some of the water of his ablution over me. I said: ‘OMessengerof Allah, what should I do? How should I decide about mywealth?’Until the Verse of inheritance was revealed at the end ofAn-Nisa’:“If the man or woman whose inheritance is in questionhas left neitherascendants or descendents.” [4:12] And: “Theyask you for a legalverdict. Say: ‘Allah directs (thus) about thosewho leave neitherdescendants nor ascendants as heirs.’” [4:176]

“The Muslim does not inherit from a disbeliever and thedisbeliever does not inherit from a Muslim.”

“O Messenger of Allah,will you stay in your house in Makkah?” He said: “Has ‘Aqeelleft us any houses?” 'Aqeel had inherited Abu Talib along with Talib. Neither Ja'far nor 'Ali inherited anything because they had been Muslims, and 'Aqeel and Talib had been disbelievers. So on account of that, Omar would say the believer does not inherit from the disbeliever. And Usamah said: the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said "The Muslim does not inherit from the disbeliever nor the disbeliever from the Muslim."

“People of twodifferent religions do not inherit from one another.”

“Rabab bin Hudhaifah (bin Sa’eed) bin SahmmarriedUmm Wa’il bint Ma’mar Al-Jumahiyyah, and she bore himthree sons.Their mother died and her sons inherited her houses andthe Wala’ ofher freed slaves. ‘Amr bin ‘As took them out toSham, and they died ofthe plague of ‘Amwas. ‘Amr inherited fromthem, and he was their‘Asabah.* When ‘Amr came back, Banu Ma’marcame to him and theyreferred their dispute with him concerning theWala’ of their sisterto ‘Umar. ‘Umar said: ‘I will judgebetween you according to what Iheard from the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ). I heard him say: “What theson or father acquires goes tohis. ‘Asabah, no matter who they are.’”So he ruled in ourfavour and wrote a document to that effect, inwhich was thetestimony of ‘Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Awf, Zaid bin Thabit andsomeoneelse. Then when ‘Abdul-Malik bin Marwan was appointed caliph,afreed slave of hers (Umm Wa’il’s) died, leaving behind twothousandDinar. I heard that that ruling had been changed, so theyreferred thedispute to Hisham bin Isma’il. We referred the matterto ‘Abdul-Malik,and brought him the document of ‘Umar. He said:‘I thought that thiswas a ruling concerning which there was nodoubt. I never thought thatthe people of Al-Madinah would reach sucha state that they woulddoubt this ruling. So he ruled in our favour,and it remained likethat afterwards.”

“Give his legacyto a man from his village.”

“My freed slavedied,leaving behind a daughter. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) dividedhiswealth between myself and his daughter, giving me half and herhalf.”

“The killer does not inherit.”

“Awoman inherits from the blood money and wealth of her husband, and heinherits from her blood money and wealth, so long as one of them didnot kill the other. If one of them killed the other deliberately,thenhe or she inherits nothing from the blood money or wealth. Ifone ofthem killed the other by mistake, he or she inherits from theother’swealth, but not from the blood money.”

“AllahandHis Messenger are the guardians of the one who has no guardian,andthe maternal uncle is the heir of one who has no other heir.”