Reconciling litigants

It is narrated from Amir that some matter was brought before Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) (Waki' said: about something). He said: This is injustice; were it not a settlement, I would have rejected it.

Shurayh said: Any woman who makes a settlement over her one-eighth share without being told what her husband left behind, that is a matter of doubt altogether.

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I saw Judge Shurayh rule for a settlement only once. It happened that a black man entrusted eighty dirhams to a woman. Later the woman moved her belongings about, and the dirhams were lost while with her. So they took the dispute to Shurayh. Shurayh said: Do you accuse her, then? He said: No. He said: If you wish, take fifty dirhams.

When people sometimes came to Abdullah bin Utbah with a dispute, he would say: Go, and make peace with one another.

It is narrated from Ibn Sirin that when people sometimes came to Shurayh with a dispute, he would say: Go to Ubaydah.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Send the disputants back so that they may reach a settlement, for deciding the case breeds rancor among the disputants.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) sent out a judge. Two men came to him with a dispute over a dinar. He gave that dinar to one of them and gave the other a dinar of his own. When this reached Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), he dismissed him.