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2112. 'Abdullāh bin Mawhab – and some of them said – 'Abdullāh bin Wahb, narrated from Tamīm Ad-Dārī who said: "I asked the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ: 'What is the Sunnah regarding a man among the people of Shirk who accepts Islam at the hand of a man among the Muslims?' So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'He is the closest of the people to him in his life and his death.'" (Ḥasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] We do not know of this Hadīth except as a narration of 'Abdullāh bin Wahb – and it is also narrated as Ibn Mawhab –
from Tamīm Ad-Dārī. Some of them entered Qabiṣah bin Dhuwaib between ‘Abdullāh bin Mawhab and Tamīm Ad-Dārī. Yaḥya bin Ḥamzah reported it from ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin ‘Umar, and he added “from Qabiṣah bin Dhuwaib” in it, and it is not connected in my view. This [Hadīth] is acted upon according to some of the people of knowledge. Some of them said his inheritance is placed in Bait Al-Māl. This is the view of Ash-Shāfi‘ī, and as proof, he cited the Hadīth of the Prophet ﷺ: “The Walā’ is for the one who freed him (or her).”[1]
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Commentary
Most of the scholars believe that Walā’ (proximity or relationship established) referred to in this narration, generates cooperation and help, but not the right to inherit. This is the view held by Ḥasan, Shābī, Mālik and most of the people of opinion. As for Imām Aḥmad, both kinds of views have been attributed to him.
