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“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 Book 23, Hadith 9
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“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 me about
this. He
jabbed his finger into my side or my chest and said: ‘O
‘Umar,
sufficient for you is the Verse that was revealed in summer,
at the
end of Surat An-Nisa’.”
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“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 water of his ablution over me. I said: ‘O
Messenger
of Allah, what should I do? How should I decide about my
wealth?’
Until the Verse of inheritance was revealed at the end of
An-Nisa’:
“If the man or woman whose inheritance is in question
has left neither
ascendants or descendents.” And: “They
ask you for a legal
verdict. Say: ‘Allah directs (thus) about those
who leave neither
descendants nor ascendants as heirs.’”