Narrated Sa`d bin Abu Waqqas: The Prophet came visiting me while I was (sick) in Mecca, ('Amir the sub-narrator said, and he disliked to die in the land, whence he had already migrated). He (i.e. the Prophet) said, May Allah bestow His Mercy on Ibn Afra (Sa`d bin Khaula). I said, O Allah's Apostle! May I will all my property (in charity)? He said, No. I said, Then may I will half of it? He said, No . I said, One third? He said: Yes, one third, yet even one third is too much. It is better for you to leave your inheritors wealthy than to leave them poor begging others, and whatever you spend for Allah's sake will be considered as a charitable deed even the handful of food you put in your wife's mouth. Allah may lengthen your age so that some people may benefit by you, and some others be harmed by you. At that time Sa`d had only one daughter.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: I recommend that people reduce the proportion of what they bequeath by will to the fourth (of the whole legacy), for Allah's Apostle said, One-third, yet even one third is too much.
Read More..Narrated Sa`d: I fell sick and the Prophet paid me a visit. I said to him, O Allah's Apostle! I invoke Allah that He may not let me expire in the land whence I migrated (i.e. Mecca). He said, May Allah give you health and let the people benefit by you. I said, I want to will my property, and I have only one daughter and I want to will half of my property (to be given in charity). He said, Half is too much. I said, Then I will one third. He said, One-third, yet even one-third is too much. (The narrator added, So the people started to will one third of their property and that was Permitted for them. )
Read More..Narrated `Aisha: (the wife of the Prophet) `Utba bin Abi Waqqas entrusted (his son) to his brother Sa`d bin Abi Waqqas saying, The son of the slave-girl of Zam`a is my (illegal) son, take him into your custody. So during the year of the Conquest (of Mecca) Sa`d took the boy and said, This is my brother's son whom my brother entrusted to me. 'Abu bin Zam's got up and said, He is my brother and the son of the slave girl of my father and was born on my father's bed. Then both of them came to Allah's Apostle and Sa`d said, O Allah's Apostle! This is my brother's son whom my brother entrusted to me. Then 'Abu bin Zam`a got up and said, This is my brother and the son of the slave-girl of my father. Allah's Apostle said, O Abu bin Zam`a! This boy is for you as the boy belongs to the bed (where he was born), and for the adulterer is the stone (i.e. deprivation). Then the Prophet said to his wife Sauda bint Zam`a, Screen yourself from this boy, when he saw the boy's resemblance to `Utba. Since then the boy did not see Sauda till he died.
Read More..Narrated Anas: A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. She was asked, Who has done so to you, soand- so? So-and-so? Till the name of the Jew was mentioned, whereupon she nodded (in agreement). So the Jew was brought and was questioned till he confessed. The Prophet then ordered that his head be crushed with stones.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The custom (in old days) was that the property of the deceased would be inherited by his offspring; as for the parents (of the deceased), they would inherit by the will of the deceased. Then Allah cancelled from that custom whatever He wished and fixed for the male double the amount inherited by the female, and for each parent a sixth (of the whole legacy) and for the wife an eighth or a fourth and for the husband a half or a fourth.
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