Category: Ibn Majah

It was
narrated from ‘Amr bin Shu’aib, from his father, from his
grandfather, that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “It is disbelief for a
man
to attribute himself to someone other than his father knowingly,
or to
deny his connection to his father, even subtly.”*

It was
narrated from Usamah bin Zaid, who attributed it to the
Prophet
(ﷺ): “The Muslim does not inherit from a disbeliever and the
disbeliever does not inherit from a Muslim.”

It was
narrated from Usamah bin Zaid that he said: “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 ‘Aqeel and Talib had been disbelievers. So on account of that, Omar would say the believer does not inherit from the disbeliever. And Usamah said: the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said “The Muslim does not inherit from the disbeliever nor the disbeliever from the Muslim.”

It was
narrated from ‘Amr bin Shu’aib, from his father, from his
grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “People of two
different religions do not inherit from one another.”

It was
narrated from ‘Amr bin Shu’aib, from his father, that his
grandfather said: “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 out to
Sham, and they died of
the plague of ‘Amwas. ‘Amr inherited from
them, and he was their
‘Asabah.* When ‘Amr came back, Banu Ma’mar
came to him and they
referred their dispute with him concerning the
Wala’ of their sister
to ‘Umar. ‘Umar said: ‘I will judge
between you according to what I
heard from the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ). I heard him say: “What the
son or father acquires goes to
his. ‘Asabah, no matter who they are.’”
So he ruled in our
favour and wrote a document to that effect, in
which was the
testimony of ‘Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Awf, Zaid bin Thabit and
someone
else. Then when ‘Abdul-Malik bin Marwan was appointed caliph,
a
freed slave of hers (Umm Wa’il’s) died, leaving behind two
thousand
Dinar. I heard that that ruling had been changed, so they
referred the
dispute to Hisham bin Isma’il. We referred the matter
to ‘Abdul-Malik,
and brought him the document of ‘Umar. He said:
‘I thought that this
was a ruling concerning which there was no
doubt. I never thought that
the people of Al-Madinah would reach such
a state that they would
doubt this ruling. So he ruled in our favour,
and it remained like
that afterwards.”

It was
narrated from ‘Aishah that the freed slave of the Prophet
(ﷺ)
fell from a palm tree and died. He left behind wealth but he had
no
child or close relative. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Give his legacy
to a man from his village.”

It was
narrated that the daughter of Hamzah said: “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.”

It was
narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
said: “The killer does not inherit.”

It was
narrated from ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr that the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ) stood up, on the day of the conquest of Makkah, and said: “A
woman inherits from the blood money and wealth of her husband, and he
inherits from her blood money and wealth, so long as one of them did
not kill the other. If one of them killed the other deliberately,
then
he or she inherits nothing from the blood money or wealth. If
one of
them killed the other by mistake, he or she inherits from the
other’s
wealth, but not from the blood money.”

It was
narrated from Abu Umamah bin Sahl bin Hunaif that a man shot
an arrow
at another man and killed him, and he had no heir except a
maternal
uncle. Abu ‘Ubaidah bin Jarrah wrote to ‘Umar about that, and
‘Umar wrote back to him saying that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Allah
and
His Messenger are the guardians of the one who has no guardian,
and
the maternal uncle is the heir of one who has no other heir.”