Those who permitted bequeathing all one's wealth

Al-A'mash said: Once I heard al-Sha'bi saying in the mosque: "I have heard a hadith of which none of those who heard it remains alive except me. I heard Amr bin Shurahbil saying: Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'O people of Yemen! It often happens among you that a man dies and leaves behind none of the relatives who would be his residuary heirs ('asabah). Such a man has the choice to put his wealth wherever he wishes.'"

Al-A'mash said: I said to Ibrahim: "Al-Sha'bi has said such and such." Ibrahim said: "Hammam bin al-Harith narrated the same to me, through Amr bin Shurahbil, from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him)."

Muhammad bin Sirin said: I asked Ubaydah about a man who has not entered into a contract with anyone and has no living relative who could be his residuary heir ('asabah): may such a man, at the time of his death, make a bequest of all his wealth? He said: "Yes!"

Al-Sha'bi said: Masruq was asked about a man who, at his death, left behind neither a master who had freed him nor any heir. He said: "His wealth is to be spent where he directed it to be spent in his bequest, and if he made no bequest, his wealth is to be placed in the public treasury (bayt al-mal)."

Yunus reported that al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said concerning a man who entered into a contract of clientage (muwalat) with someone and then became a Muslim at his hands: "If this man too wishes, he may, at the time of his death, make a bequest of all his wealth."

Mughirah said that Abu al-Aliyah made a bequest of his inheritable wealth to Banu Hashim.