A mother, a full sister and a grandfather

Waki' narrated, saying: Sufyan narrated to us from Abd al-Wahid, from Isma'il bin Raja, from Ibrahim.

It is reported from al-Sha'bi that Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) said concerning the case of a mother, a full sister and a grandfather that their case works out from nine shares: three shares for the mother, four shares for the grandfather and two shares for the sister. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Half of the wealth is for the sister, that is, three shares of the whole wealth; two shares, that is, a third of the wealth, are for the mother; and the remaining wealth, that is, one share, is for the grandfather. Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Half of the wealth, that is, three shares, is for the sister; a sixth, that is, one share, is for the mother; and the remaining wealth, that is, two shares, is for the grandfather. Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The wealth is to be divided into three parts: a third for the mother, a third for the sister and a third for the grandfather. Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A third of the wealth is for the mother and the remaining wealth is for the grandfather.

Waki' said that al-Sha'bi said: Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf asked me about this case, so I told him the views of these people. He liked the view of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) very much and began asking: Whose view is this? I said: That of Sayyiduna Abu Turab (may Allah be pleased with him). At this al-Hajjaj caught himself and said: We do not find fault with the judgement of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him); we only regard such and such of his matters as faulty.

Ibrahim said concerning a woman who leaves behind her full sister, her grandfather and her mother that, according to the statement of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), half of the wealth is for her full sister, a third of the wealth is for her mother and a sixth of the wealth is for her grandfather.

And Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say: A sixth is for the mother, a third of the wealth is for the grandfather and half of the wealth is for the sister. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) also used to say: Allah Almighty will not see me in the state of preferring a mother over a grandfather, in this case or in any other.

And Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) used to give the mother a third of the wealth and give the sister a third of the remainder. In this case Sayyiduna Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) used to divide the wealth into nine shares: a third of the wealth, that is, three shares, for the mother; a third of the remainder, that is, two shares, for the sister; and four shares for the grandfather. And Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) used to divide the wealth among the heirs into three parts: a third of the wealth for the mother, a third for the sister and a third for the grandfather as well.

And Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) used to say that the grandfather has the status of the father.

Amr bin Murrah said that Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say concerning the case of a sister, a mother and a grandfather: Half of the wealth is for the sister, and the remaining half is to be divided between the grandfather and the mother.

Ibrahim reports that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say concerning the case of a sister, a mother and a grandfather: The sister is to be given half of the wealth, the mother a sixth and the grandfather the remaining wealth.

Abu Bakr (Ibn Abi Shaybah) said: This case works out from six shares according to the view of Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both), and from nine shares according to the view of Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him).