Inheritance & Wills

Sunan Ibn Majah

The Chapters on Wills

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ruled that the debts should be paid off before the execution of the will. You recite: '(The distribution in all cases is) after the payment of legacies he may have bequeathed or debts.' The sons...

Sunan Ibn Majah

The Chapters on Wills

“My father died and left behind wealth, but he did not make a will. Will it expiate for him if I give charity on his behalf?” He said: “Yes.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

The Chapters on Wills

“My mother died unexpectedly and she had not made a will. I think that if she could have spoken, she would have given in charity. Will she have a reward if I give in charity on her behalf, and will...

Sunan Ibn Majah

The Chapters on Wills

“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: 'I do not have anything and I have no wealth, but I have an orphan (under my care) who has wealth.” He said: “Eat from the wealth of your orphan, without...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“O Abu Hurairah. Learn about the inheritance and teach it, for it is half of knowledge, but it will be forgotten. This is the first thing that will be taken away from my nation.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The wife of Sa’d bin Rabi’ came with the two daughters of Sa’d to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, these are the two daughters of Sa’d. He was killed with you on the day of Uhud,...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“A man came to Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari and Salman bin Rabi’ah Al-Bahili and asked them about (the shares of) a daughter, a son’s daughter, a sister through one’s father and mother. They said: ‘The daughter gets one half, and what...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) when a case was brought to him which involved the share of a grandfather. He gave him one third, or one sixth.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ruled concerning a grandfather who was among us, that he should receive one sixth.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“A grandmother came to Abu Bakr Siddiq and asked him for her inheritance. Abu Bakr said to her: ‘You have nothing according to the Book of Allah, and I don’t know of anything for you according to the Book of...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Abbas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave a grandmother one sixth of the inheritance.

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“By Allah, I am not leaving behind any problem more difficult than the one who leaves behind an heir. I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and he never spoke so harshly to me about anything as he spoke to...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“There are three things, if the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had clarified them, that would have been dearer to me than the world and everything in it: a person who leaves behind no heir, usury, and the caliphate.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“I fell sick and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit me, he and Abu Bakr with him, and they came walking. I had lost consciousness, so the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) performed ablution and poured some of the...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The Muslim does not inherit from a disbeliever and the disbeliever does not inherit from a Muslim.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“O Messenger of Allah, will you stay in your house in Makkah?” He said: “Has ‘Aqeel left us any houses?” 'Aqeel had inherited Abu Talib along with Talib. Neither Ja'far nor 'Ali inherited anything because they had been Muslims, and...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“People of two different religions do not inherit from one another.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Rabab bin Hudhaifah (bin Sa’eed) bin Sahm married Umm Wa’il bint Ma’mar Al-Jumahiyyah, and she bore him three sons. Their mother died and her sons inherited her houses and the Wala’ of her freed slaves. ‘Amr bin ‘As took them...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Give his legacy to a man from his village.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“My freed slave died, leaving behind a daughter. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) divided his wealth between myself and his daughter, giving me half and her half.”