A man who divorces or dies with household goods in his home

Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A man laid claim to the household goods. Four women came to Shurayh and testified, saying: "We gave him the dowry and told him to prepare her household goods (trousseau), so he prepared them for her." Shurayh (may Allah have mercy on him) decided the goods against the man and said: "Her compensation ('uqr) is from your own wealth."

Ayyub (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I wrote a letter to Abu Qilabah (may Allah have mercy on him) asking him about a man who furnishes a room with the woman's goods: whose will the goods be? He said: "They remain the man's as long as he has not given them to the woman."

Al-Hasan said: In the case of a dispute, the things that belong to men will be the men's, and the things that belong to women will be the women's; and whatever remains will go to the one who establishes proof.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Whatever relates to men is for the men, whatever relates to women goes to the women, and whatever remains is to be divided between them.

Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said concerning a woman whose husband dies: She gets everything on which she closed her door (i.e. what is in the house), except what is of the man's belongings, such as the shawl (taylasan), the shirt and the like.

Hammad (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about the household goods, and he said: "The woman's clothes are for the woman and the man's clothes are for the man. And whatever they dispute over will belong to the one in whose possession it is."

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: When a woman comes to her husband with jewellery and goods, and stays with her husband until she dies, all of it is inheritance, even if the woman's family establish proof that it was with her only as a loan for use; unless they had made this clear to the husband during her lifetime, before her death.

Shurayh (may Allah have mercy on him) used to say concerning the household goods: "Weapons and men's goods will be for the man."

Al-Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If a man dies and leaves some goods in the house, then the men's goods are for the man and the women's goods are for the woman. And whatever is shared between men and women will be for the man, unless the woman establishes proof that it is hers, in which case it will be hers.