A man who gives charity and it then returns to him by inheritance

Ibn Buraydah narrates from his father that a woman came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: I gave a slave girl in charity to my mother. My mother has died, and the slave girl has remained with me. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Your reward is fulfilled, and she has returned to you through inheritance.

It is narrated from Humayd bin Hilal (may Allah have mercy on him) that a man gave a slave woman in charity to his mother. His mother made a contract of manumission (mukatabah) with her, and then she died, so the slave woman came back to him through inheritance. The man asked Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) about this. He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: You will inherit your mother's estate, and if you wish to deal with her in the same way as you did before, you may do so. Humayd said: I indeed saw her; she was called Labibah.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) said, concerning a person who gives something in charity and then gets it back through inheritance: If he receives it according to the ruling of the Book of Allah, there is no harm.

He said: And Qatadah said: Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say that.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that if a man, after giving charity, becomes its owner again through inheritance, he should do with it what he did before.

The same is reported from Ibrahim al-Taymi (may Allah have mercy on him).

Shurayh (may Allah have mercy on him) saw no harm in it being eaten.

Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) saw no harm in eating it.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Eat it, for Allah Almighty has not made eating it unlawful for you.

Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) said that whatever comes to you as a share of inheritance is lawful for you to eat.

It is narrated from Ibrahim al-Taymi (may Allah have mercy on him) that when Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) gave something in charity and it came back to him through inheritance, he would deal with it in the same way (he would treat it likewise) as it had been before.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that if it comes back to you through inheritance, there is no harm.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) said, concerning a person who gives charity and then inherits that same thing, that his share in the inheritance adds nothing to it except lawfulness.

Ata (may Allah have mercy on him) said that if a person gives charity and then that same thing is coming back to him through inheritance, he should put it in the share of another heir.

Muzarri' (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) about this. He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If you take it as part of your share, there is no harm, and if you leave it, that is better.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that he will place it in the like of it (he will give it in charity again).

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The sa'ibah (a slave freed with no claim of patronage over him) and charity are for that Day (for the Day of Resurrection).