Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 13 Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that Umar ibn al-Khattab asked the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about someone who died without parents or offspring, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said […]
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 14 Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amribn Hazm that Abdar-Rahman ibn Hanthala az-Zurqi was informed by a mawla of Quraysh,who used to be known as Ibn Mursi, that he was sitting with Umar ibn al-Khattab, and when they had prayed dhuhr, […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 15 Yahya related to me from Malik that Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm heard his father say many times, ”Umar ibn al-Khattab used to say, ‘It is a wonder that the paternal aunt is inherited from and does not inherit.’ “ وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 16 Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us, in which there is no dispute, and which I saw the people of knowledge in our city doing, about paternal relations is that full brothers are more entitled to inherit than half-brothers by the father and half-brothers […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 17 Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us in which there is no dispute and which I saw the people of knowledge in our citydoing, is that the child of the half-sibling by the mother, the paternal grandfather, the paternal uncle who is the maternal […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 18 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali from Umar ibn Uthman ibn Affan from Usama ibn Zayd that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “A muslim does not inherit from a kafir.” حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 19 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib told him that Aqil and Talib inherited from Abu Talib, and Ali did not inheritfrom him. Ali said, “Because of that, we have given up our portion of ash Shab.” (A […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 20 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Sulayman ibn Yasar that Muhammad ibn al-Ashath told him that he had a christian or jewish paternal aunt who died. Muhammad ibn al-Ashath mentioned that to Umar ibn al-Khattab and said to him, “Who inherits from her?” Umar […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 21 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Ismail ibn Abi Hakim that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz freed a christian who then died. Ismail said, ”Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ordered me to put his property in the bayt al-mal.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 22 Yahya related to me from Malik from a reliable source of his who had heard Said ibn al-Musayyab say, ”Umar ibn al-Khattab refused to let anyone inherit from the non-arabs except for one who was born among the arabs.” Malik said, “If a pregnant woman comes from the land […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 23 Yahya related to me from Malik from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman from more than one of the people of knowledge of that time, that those who were killed on the Day of the Camel, the Day of Siffin, the Day of al-Harra, and the Day of Qudayd did […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 27, Hadith 24 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Urwa ibn az-Zubayr said about the child of lian and the child of fornication, that if they died, the mother inherited her right from them according to the Book of Allah, the Mighty, the Majestic! The siblings by […]