Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

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Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm narrated to us: Abū Baḥr al-Bakrāwī narrated to us: Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-Ḥārith, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, ruled that full siblings inherit to the exclusion of paternal half-siblings: a man inherits from his full brother, who shares both parents, and not from his paternal half-brothers.

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al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-ʿAnbarī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Maʿmar informed us, from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Distribute the property among those entitled to prescribed shares according to the Book of God. Whatever remains after the prescribed shares goes to the nearest male relative.”

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Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from ʿAwsajah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: A man died during the time of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, leaving no heir except a slave whom he had freed. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, gave the inheritance to him.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb narrated to us: ʿUmar ibn Ruʾbah al-Taghlibī narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naṣrī, from Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “A woman inherits in three cases: from a person she has emancipated, a foundling she has taken in, and a child concerning whom she has invoked liʿān.” Muḥammad ibn Yazīd said: “No one besides Hishām narrated this report.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah: Yaḥyā ibn Ḥarb narrated to me, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: When the verse concerning liʿān was revealed, the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Any woman who affiliates to a people someone who does not belong to them has no standing with God, and He will never admit her to His Paradise. Any man who disowns his child, despite knowing the child is his, will be screened off from God on the Day of Resurrection and disgraced before all witnesses.”

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “It is an act of disbelief for a person knowingly to claim a lineage he does not know, or to deny his own lineage, even in a subtle way.”

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Abū Kurayb narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn al-Yamān narrated to us, from al-Muthannā ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever commits adultery with a slave woman or a free woman, the child is a child of fornication; he neither inherits nor is inherited from.”

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Bakkār ibn Bilāl al-Dimashqī informed us: Muḥammad ibn Rāshid informed us, from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “When a child is claimed after the death of the father to whom he is attributed, and the heirs of that man claim him after his death, it is established that a child born to a slave woman whom the man owned when he had intercourse with her is affiliated with the man who claims him. He receives no share from an inheritance distributed before this, but he receives his share of any inheritance not yet distributed. The child is not affiliated with the man if the man to whom he is attributed denied him. If the child was born to a slave woman the man did not own, or to a free woman with whom he committed adultery, the child is not affiliated with him and does not inherit from him. Even if the man to whom the child is attributed claims him, the child is one of fornication and belongs to the people of his mother, whether she is free or enslaved.” Muḥammad ibn Rāshid said: “This refers to property distributed in the pre-Islamic period, before Islam.”

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Shuʿbah and Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade selling the bond of clientage and giving it as a gift.

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym al-Ṭāʾifī narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade selling the bond of clientage or giving it as a gift.

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Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ informed us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah informed us, from ʿUqayl, who heard Nāfiʿ relate from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Any inheritance divided in the pre-Islamic period remains according to the division of that period, and any inheritance reached by Islam is according to the division of Islam.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: al-Rabīʿ ibn Badr narrated to us: Abū al-Zubayr narrated to us, from Jābir, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “If a baby cries at birth, funeral prayer is performed for him if he dies, and he inherits.”

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al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Dimashqī narrated to us: Marwān ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to me, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh and al-Miswar ibn Makhramah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “A baby does not inherit until he cries aloud.” The narrator said: “Crying aloud means that he cries, cries out, or sneezes.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mawhab, who said: I heard Tamīm al-Dārī say: I asked, “Messenger of God, what is the practice concerning a man from the People of the Book who becomes Muslim through another man?” He said: “That man has the strongest claim to him in his life and after his death.”