A husband, a mother, brothers and a grandfather: the case called al-Akdariyyah

Ibrahim said: Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to work out the case of "al-Akdariyyah" from eight shares: three shares for the husband, three shares for the sister, one share for the mother and one share for the grandfather. He said: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) used to work out this case from nine shares: three shares for the husband, three shares for the sister, two shares for the mother and one share for the grandfather. And Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) also used to work out this case from nine shares: three shares for the husband, three shares for the sister, two shares for the mother and one share for the grandfather. Then he would multiply it by three, so that there are 27 shares in all. In this way he would give the husband nine shares and the mother six shares; 12 shares remain, and he would give the grandfather eight shares and the sister four shares.

Ibrahim, through another chain, narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) something like the previous hadith.

And he added to it: News has reached me from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he used to declare the grandfather to stand in the place of the father, so that he would not make a brother an heir in his presence. He would give the husband half of the estate, the grandfather one share, meaning one sixth of the estate, and the mother one third of the estate, meaning two shares.

A report like the hadith before the previous one is also transmitted from Ibrahim through a third chain.

Sufyan said: I said to al-A'mash: Why is this case called "Akdariyyah"? He said: Abd al-Malik bin Marwan asked this question to a man named "Akdar"; he erred in it, so he gave it the name "Akdariyyah".

Waki' said: Before Sufyan gave this explanation, we used to hear that this case was named Akdariyyah because the view of Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) became muddled in it, that is, he did not keep his view consistent by analogy.