Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Umar's opinion about inheritance

It is narrated from Masud Thaqafi that:
“I was a witness when Umar bin Khattab made brothers of the father and mother share the third with maternal brothers.

A man remarked: You delivered a different judgment in this issue before.

He asked: How did I decide?

He replied: You gave to the maternal brothers and did not give anything to paternal brothers.

Umar said: That was a judgment [of that time] and this is another judgment [which I give] now.”

On the basis of another narration, he said: “It was on the basis of judgment of that day and this is on the basis of judgment of today.”

(Sunanul Kubraa, 6:255; Sunan Darimi, I:154)

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