Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2104
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، قال: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْخَالُ وَارِثُ مَنْ لاَ وَارِثَ لَهُ " . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَقَدْ أَرْسَلَهُ بَعْضُهُمْ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ فِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ . - وَاخْتَلَفَ فِيهِ أَصْحَابُ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَوَرَّثَ بَعْضُهُمُ الْخَالَ وَالْخَالَةَ وَالْعَمَّةَ وَإِلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ ذَهَبَ أَكْثَرُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ فِي تَوْرِيثِ ذَوِي الأَرْحَامِ وَأَمَّا زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ فَلَمْ يُوَرِّثْهُمْ وَجَعَلَ الْمِيرَاثَ فِي بَيْتِ الْمَالِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ishaq ibn Mansur informed us; Abu ‘Asim informed us, from Ibn Jurayj, from ‘Amr ibn Muslim, from Tawus, from ‘A’ishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, ‘The maternal uncle inherits from one who has no heir.’ This is a hasan gharib hadith. Some narrators transmitted it as mursal, without mentioning ‘A’ishah. The Prophet’s Companions differed over this: some assigned inheritance to the maternal uncle, maternal aunt, and paternal aunt. Most scholars followed this hadith in assigning inheritance to distant kindred. Zayd ibn Thabit did not assign them inheritance and placed the estate in the public treasury.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The compiler records disagreement among the Companions and later scholars on inheritance by distant kindred, and contrasts the majority position with Zayd ibn Thabit’s view.
قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْخَالُ وَارِثُ مَنْ لاَ وَارِثَ لَهُ " .
The source includes the mursal variant and a substantial account of juristic disagreement and practice, omitted by the witness.
Should this transmission and legal commentary be preserved? It is translated from the Arabic.