Hadith Details
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Sunan Ibn Majah
كتاب الفرائض
Chapters on Shares of Inheritance
" هُوَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِمَحْيَاهُ وَمَمَاتِهِ "
“I heard Tamim Ad- Dari say: ‘I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the Sunnah concerning a man from among the People of the Book who becomes a Muslim at the hands of another man?’ He said: ‘He is the closest of all people to him in life and in death.’”
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Other hadiths from the same chapter
- Hadith 2748
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade selling the right of inheritance, or giving it as a gift.
- Hadith 2744
“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.”*
- Hadith 2745
“Whoever commits adultery with a slave woman or a free woman, his child is illegitimate, and he cannot inherit from him or be inherited from (i.e., this child…
- Hadith 2751
“No child inherits until he raises his voice or cries.”
- Hadith 2722
“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.”
- Hadith 2719
“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…