Narrated Abu Bakr: Abut Tufayl said: Fatimah came to Abu Bakr asking him for the inheritance of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. Abu Bakr said: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: If Allah, Most High, gives a Prophet some means of sustenance, that goes to his successor.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Do not distribute dinars among my heirs: Whatever I left after contribution to my wives and provisions for my governor is sadaqah (alms). Abu Dawud said: 'Amil means the workers or laborers on the land (i. e. peasants).
Read More..Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab: AbulBakhtari said: I heard from a man a tradition which I liked. I said to him: Write it down for me. So he brought it clearly written to me. (It says): Al-Abbas and Ali entered upon Umar when Talhah, az-Zubayr, Abdur Rahman and Saad were with him. They (Abbas and Ali) were disputing. Umar said to Talhah, az-Zubayr, Abdur Rahman and Saad: Do you not know that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: All the property of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم is sadaqah (alms), except what he provided for his family for their sustenance and their clothing. We are not to be inherited. They said: Yes, indeed. He said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to spend from his property on his family, and give the residue as sadaqah (alms). The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم then died, and Abu Bakr ruled for two years. He would deal with it in the same manner as the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم did. He then mentioned a little from the tradition of Malik ibn Aws.
Read More..Narrated Aishah: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم died, the wives of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم intended to send Uthman bin Affan to Abu Bakr to ask him their cost of living from (the inheritance of) the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. Thereupon Aishah said: Did not the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: We are not inherited. Whatever we leave is sadaqah.
Read More..A similar tradition has been narrated by Ibn Shihab through a different chain of narrators. This version says: I said: Do you not fear Allah ? Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: We are not inherited. Whatever we leave is sadaqah (alms). This property belongs to the family of Muhammad for their emergent needs and their guest. When I die, it will go to him who becomes ruler after me.
Read More..Narrated Jubair bin Mutim: That he and Uthman bin Affan went to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم talking to him about the fifth which he divided among the Banu Hisham and Abu Abd al-Muttalib. I said: Messenger of Allah, you have divided (the fifth) among our brethren Banu Abd al-Muttalib, but you have not given us anything, though our relationship to you is the same as theirs. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The Banu Hisham and the Banu Abd al-Muttalib are one. Jubair said: He did not divide the fifth among the Banu Abd Shams and the Banu Nawfal as he divided among the Banu Hashim and the Banu Abd al-Muttalib. He said: Abu Bakr used to divide the fifth like the division of Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم except that he did not give the relatives of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, as he gave them. Umar bin al-Khattab and Uthman after him used to give them (a portion) from it.
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