Sunan Abi Dawud — Shares of Inheritance (Kitab Al-Fara'id)

I fell ill, and the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr came to me on foot to visit me. As I was unconscious, I could not speak to him. He performed ablution and sprinkled water on me ; so I became conscious. I said: Messenger of Allah, how should I do in my property, as I have sisters? Thereafter the verse about inheritance was revealed: “They ask thee for legal decision. Say: Allah directs (thus) about those who leave no descendants or ascendants as heirs.”

He said: He assessed, and after the words of kull safara’ wa baida’, he said: that is, gold and silver will belong to him.

The Prophet (ﷺ) had a bowl called gharra’. It was carried by four persons. When the sun rose high, and they performed the forenoon prayer, the bowl in which tharid was prepared was brought, and the people gathered round it. When they were numerous, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah has made me a respectable servant, and He did not make me an obstinate tyrant. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Eat from it sides and leave its top, the blessing will be conferred on it

We were with the Prophet (ﷺ). He mentioned civil strife (fitnah) and expressed its gravity. We or the people said: Messenger of Allah, if this happens to us it will destroy us. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said; No. It is enough for you that you would be killed. Sa’id said: I saw that my brethren were killed.

“Hafsah and I were both fasting when we were presented some food that we really wanted, so we ate from it. The Messenger of Allah came, and Hafsah beat me to him – she was the daughter of her father – and she said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! We were both fasting when we were presented with some food that we wanted, so we ate from it.’ He said: ‘Make up another day in its place.'”

“I was with the caravan of those who stopped with the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) at a dead lamb. The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: ‘Do you think that this was insignificant to its owners when they threw it away?’ They said:’Yes! It is because of its insignificance that they threw it away O Messenger of Allah!’ He said: ‘The world is more insignificant to Allah than this to its owners.'”

When the Prophet (ﷺ) observed I’tikaf, his bedding would be spread for him, or his bed would be placed there for him, behind the Pillar of Repentance.

the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ruled concerning one, two or three date palms belonging to a man among other palm trees – when they differ concerning entitlement to the surrounding land. He ruled that the land around each of those trees, as far as their leaves reach, measured from the bottom of the tree, belongs to the owner of the tree.

“If a man were to fill his stomach completely with pus until it destroyed him, that would be better for him than filling (his mind) with poetry.”