Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 1 Yahya related to me from Malik, “The generally agreed upon way of doing things among us and what I have seen the people of knowledge doing in our city about the fixed shares of inheritance of children from the mother or father when one or other of them dies […]
Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.
Book 27, Faraid, discusses the laws of Islamic inheritance and distribution of estates.
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 2 Malik said, “The inheritance of a husband from a wife when she leaves no children or grandchildren through sons is a half. If she leaves children or grandchildren through sons, male or female, by her present or previous husbands, the husband has a quarter after bequests or debts. The […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 3 Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us about which there is no dispute and what I have seen the people of knowledge in our city doing is that when a father inherits from a son or a daughter and the deceased leaves children, or […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 4 Malik said, “The generally agreed upon way of doing things among us is that maternal half-siblings do not inherit anything when there are children or grandchildren through sons, male or female. They do not inherit anything when there is a father or the father’s father. They inherit in what […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 5 Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us is that full siblings do not inherit anything with sons nor anything with grandsons through a son, nor anything with the father. They do inherit with the daughters and the granddaughters through a son when the deceased […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 6 Malik said, “The generally agreed on wayof doing things among us is that when there are no full siblings with them, half-siblings by the father take the position of full siblings. Their males are like the males of the full siblings, and their females are like their females except […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 7 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that he had heard that Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan wrote to Zayd ibn Thabit asking him about the grandfather. Zayd ibn Thabit wrote to him, “You have written to me asking me about the grandfather. Allah knows best. That […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 8 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Qabisa ibn Dhu’ayba that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave the grandfather “what people give him today.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ ذُؤَيْبٍ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، فَرَضَ لِلْجَدِّ الَّذِي يَفْرِضُ النَّاسُ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ . Muwatta Malik: […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 9 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 […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 10 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 […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 11 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 […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 12 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdu Rabbih ibn Said that Abu Bakr ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham only gave a fixed share to two grandmothers (together). Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us in which there is no dispute and […]