Home / Collections / Sahih Muslim / The Book of the Rules of Inheritance
Sahih Muslim

The Book of the Rules of Inheritance

كتاب الفرائض

Read the English translation first, with the original Arabic directly underneath.

BOOK

Hadith

Page 2
Hadith 4
Read full hadith
ENGLISH

Hammam b. Munabbih reported:

This is what Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) narrated to us from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). And he narrated many ahadith, and one was this: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ said: I am, according to the Book of Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, nearest to the believers of all the human beings. So whoever amongst you dies in debt or leaves behind destitute children, you should call me (for help) ), for I am his guardian. And who amongst you leaves property, his inheritor is entitled to get it, whoever he is.

ARABIC

‏ أَنَا أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَأَيُّكُمْ مَا تَرَكَ دَيْنًا أَوْ ضَيْعَةً فَادْعُونِي فَأَنَا وَلِيُّهُ وَأَيُّكُمْ مَا تَرَكَ مَالاً فَلْيُؤْثَرْ بِمَالِهِ عَصَبَتُهُ مَنْ كَانَ ‏

Hadith 4
Read full hadith
ENGLISH

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

He who leaves property, that is for the inheritors; and he who leaves behind destitute children, then it is my responsibility (to look after them).

ARABIC

‏ مَنْ تَرَكَ مَالاً فَلِلْوَرَثَةِ وَمَنْ تَرَكَ كَلاًّ فَإِلَيْنَا ‏

Hadith 4
Read full hadith
ENGLISH

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters.

ARABIC

‏ وَمَنْ تَرَكَ كَلاًّ وَلِيتُهُ ‏