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2927. It was reported from Sa'eed who said: " 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb used to say: 'Blood money is only for the ʿAqilah. and the wife will not inherit anything from it' until Ad-Daḥḥāk bin Sufyān said: 'The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ wrote to me to give a share from the blood money of Ashyam Ad-Dībābī to his wife.' So 'Umar withdrew (his ruling)." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Aḥmad bin Ṣāliḥ (one of the narrators) said: " 'Abdur-Razzāq narrated this Ḥadīth to us, from Ma'mar, from Az-Zuhri, from Sa'eed. He said in it: "The Prophet ﷺ had put him in authority over the Bedouins."
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Commentary
The blood money paid for the murder of a person becomes in fact, the property of the deceased person. It has, therefore, to be distributed among his legal heirs, the wife being one of them.
The End of the Book of Inheritance
In The Name of Allāh, MostGracious, Most Merciful.
