Shares of Inheritance (Al-Fara'id)
Oct 27, 2008Hadis Imam Abu Daud about Shares of Inheritance (Al-Fara'id)
Book 18 : Hadith 2897
Narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib:
A man came to the Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) and said: I have property left by a man of Azd. I do not find any man of Azd to give it to him. He said: Go and look for man of Azd for a year. He then came to him after one year and said: Apostle of Allah, I did not find any man of Azd to give it to him. He said: Look for a man of Khuza'ah whom you meet first and give it to him. When he turned away, he said; Call the man to me. When he came to him, he said: Look for the leading man of Khuza'ah and give it to him.
Book 18 : Hadith 2898
Narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib:
A man of Khuza'ah died and his estate was brought to the Prophet (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam). He said: Look for his heir or some relative. But they found neither heir nor relative. The Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) said: Give it to the leading man of Khuza'ah. The narrator Yahya said: Sometimes I heard him (al-Husayn ibn Aswad) say in this tradition: Look for the greatest man of Khuza'ah.
Book 18 : Hadith 2899
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
A man died leaving no heir but a slave whom he had emancipated. The Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) asked: Has he any heir? They replied: No, except a slave whom he had emancipated. The Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) assigned his estate to him (the emancipated slave).
Book 18 : Hadith 2900 
Narrated Wathilah ibn al-Asqa':
The Prophet (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) said: A woman gets inheritance from the three following: one she has set free, a foundling, and her child about whom she has invoked a curse on herself if she was untrue in declaring he was not born out of wedlock.
Book 18 : Hadith 2901
Narrated Makhul:
The Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) assigned the estate of a child of a woman about whom she had invoked a curse to her mother, and to her heirs after her.
Book 18 : Hadith 2905
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Prophet (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) said: people of two different religions would not inherit from one another.
Book 18 : Hadith 2906
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal:
I heard the Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) say: Islam increases and does not diminish. He, therefore, appointed a Muslim heir (of a non-Muslim).
Book 18 : Hadith 2908
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:
The Prophet (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) said: An estate which was divided in pre-Islamic period may follow the division in force then, but any estate in Islamic times must follow the division laid down by Islam.
Book 18 : Hadith 2911
Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:
Amr ibn Shu'ayb reported: Rabab ibn Hudhayfah married a woman and three sons were born to him from her. Their mother then died. They inherited her houses and had the right of inheritance of her freed slaves.
Amr ibn al-'As was the agnate of her sons. He sent them to
Umar reported the Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) as saying: Whatever property a son or a father receives as an heir will go to his agnates, whoever they may be. He then wrote a document for him, witnessed by AbdurRahman ibn Awf, Zayd ibn Thabit and one other person. When AbdulMalik became caliph, they presented the case to Hisham ibn Isma'il or Isma'il ibn Hisham (the narrator is doubtful).
He sent them to AbdulMalik who said: This is the decision which I have already seen.
The narrator said: So he (AbdulMalik) made the decision on the basis of the document of Umar ibn al-Khattab, and that is still with us today.
Book 18 : Hadith 2912
Narrated Tamim ad-Dari:
Tamim asked: Apostle of Allah), what is the sunnah about a man who accepts Islam by advice and persuasion of a Muslim? He replied: He is the nearest to him in life and in death.
Book 18 : Hadith 2914
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) said: When an infant has raised its voice (and then dies), it will be treated as an heir.
Book 18 : Hadith 2921
Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:
Sa'id said: Umar ibn al-Khattab said: Blood-money is meant for the clan of the slain, and she will not inherit from the blood-money of her husband. Ad-Dahhak ibn Sufyan said: The Apostle of Allah (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) wrote to me that I should give a share to the wife of Ashyam ad-Dubabi from the blood-money of her husband. So Umar withdrew his opinion.
Ahmad ibn Salih said: AbdurRazzaq transmitted this tradition to us from Ma'mar, from az-Zuhri on the authority of Sa'id. In this version he said: The Prophet (Sholallahu ‘Alaihi Wassalam) made him governor over the bedouins.