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Hadith 6490
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Give the Fara'id (shares prescribed in the Quran) to those who are entitled to
receive it; and whatever remains, should be given to the closest male relative of the deceased.'
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 85, Hadith 12
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Mu`adh bin Jabal came to us in Yemen as a tutor and a ruler, and we (the people of Yemen) asked him
about (the distribution of the property of ) a man who had died leaving a daughter and a sister. Mu`adh
gave the daughter one-half of the property and gave the sister the other half. Sahih al-Bukhari Book 85, Hadith 11
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Abu Musa was asked regarding (the inheritance of) a daughter, a son's daughter, and a sister. He said,
"The daughter will take one-half and the sister will take one-half. If you go to Ibn Mas`ud, he will tell
you the same." Ibn Mas`ud was asked and was told of Abu Musa's verdict. Ibn Mas`ud then said, "If I
give the same verdict, I would stray and would not be of the rightly-guided. The verdict I will give in
this case, will be the same as the Prophet (ﷺ) did, i.e. one-half is for daughter, and one-sixth for the son's
daughter, i.e. both shares make two-thirds of the total property; and the rest is for the sister."
Afterwards we cams to Abu Musa and informed him of Ibn Mas`ud's verdict, whereupon he said, "So,
do not ask me for verdicts, as long as this learned man is among you." Sahih al-Bukhari Book 85, Hadith 13