Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2733
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الأَصْبَهَانِيِّ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدِ بْنِ وَرْدَانَ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ مَوْلًى، لِلنَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَقَعَ مِنْ نَخْلَةٍ فَمَاتَ وَتَرَكَ مَالاً وَلَمْ يَتْرُكْ وَلَدًا وَلاَ حَمِيمًا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " أَعْطُوا مِيرَاثَهُ رَجُلاً مِنْ أَهْلِ قَرْيَتِهِ " .
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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad said: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aṣbahānī, from Mujāhid ibn Wardān, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from ʿĀʾishah, that a freed client of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, fell from a palm tree and died, leaving wealth but no child or close relative. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Give his inheritance to a man from his village.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Walāʾ is the legal bond of clientage associated with emancipation.