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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Uthman ibn
Ishaq ibn Kharasha that Qabisa ibn Dhu'ayb said, "A grandmother came
to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and asked him for her inheritance. Abu Bakr said
to her, 'You have nothing in the Book of Allah, and I do not know that
you have anything in the sunna of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace. Go away therefore, until I have
questioned the people.' (i.e.the Companions). He questioned the
people, and al-Mughira ibn Shuba said, 'I was present with the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he
gave the grandmother a sixth.' Abu Bakr said, 'Was there anybody else
with you?' Muhammad ibn Maslama al-Ansari stood up and said the like
of what al-Mughira said. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq gave it to her. Then the
other grandmother came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and asked him for her
inheritance. He said to her, "You have nothing in the Book of Allah,
and what has been decided is only for other than you, and I am not one
to add to the fixed shares, other than that sixth. If there are two of
you together, it is between you. If eitherof you is left alone with
it, it is hers."
Muwatta Malik Book 27, Hadith 10
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Sulayman
ibn Yasar said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, andZayd ibn
Thabit gave the grandfather a third with full siblings". Malik said,
"The generally agreed on way of doing things among us and what I have
seen the people of knowledge in our city doing is that the paternal
grandfather does not inherit anything at all with the father. He is
given a sixth as a fixed share with the son and the grandson through a
son. Other than that, when the deceased does not leave a mother or a
paternal aunt, one begins with whoever has a fixed share, and they are
given their shares. If there is a sixth of the property left over, the
grandfather is given a sixth as a fixed share."
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that al-Qasim
ibn Muhammad said, "Two grandmothers came to Abu Bakr asSiddiq, and he
wanted to give the sixth to the one who was from the mother's side,
and a man of the Ansar said, 'What? Are you omitting the one from whom
he would inherit if she died while he was alive?' Abu Bakr divided the
sixth between them.~