Collection: Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 24060

The life-tenancy which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) allowed was only that one should say: It is for you and your descendants. When he says: It is yours as long as you live, it returns to its owner.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24061

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not give property to go to the survivor and do not give life-tenancy. If anyone is given something to the survivor or given life-tenancy, it goes to his heirs.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24062

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) decided a case of a woman from the Ansar to whom an orchard of date-palms was given by her son. She then died. Her son said: I gave it to her for her life, and she has brothers. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: It belongs to her during […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24055

The Prophet (ﷺ) has saying: What is given in life-tenancy belongs to the one to whom it was given.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24056

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone is given life-tenancy, it belongs to him and to his descendants. His descendants who inherit him will inherit from it.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24057

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by al-Laith b. Sa’d from al-Zuhri, from Abu Salamah from Jabir.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24052

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: It is not permissible for a woman to present a gift (from her husband’s property) except with the permission of her husband.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24054

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Samurah from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24046

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone intercedes for his brother and he presents a gift to him for it and he accepts it, he approaches a great door of the doors of usury.