Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Qais bin Abi Hazim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that after the death of Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him), Hazrat Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Hazrat Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) or Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "Give me Abdullah's annual salary, because the family of Abdullah is more deserving of it from the treasury." The narrator says: So they gave him fifteen thousand dirhams.

Hazrat Simak bin Harb narrates from the elders of Hazrat Al-Hayy (may Allah have mercy on him), they said: A man died after a third of the year had passed, so Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered the payment of two-thirds of his annual salary.

Hazrat Mutalib bin Abdullah bin Qais bin Makhramah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that a woman complained to Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) about her need, so she (may Allah be pleased with her) said: What has happened to you? She replied: We used to receive the annual salary of a deceased person, but now we have stopped it. Upon this, Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Why did you do that? You have taken out from Allah’s wealth the share that used to come to you, and you have removed it from your house! And this incident took place during the caliphate of Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him).

Hazrat Abu al-Muqdam Hisham bin Ziyad, who was the freed slave of Hazrat Uthman, narrates from his father that Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) used to make the recipient of an annual salary an heir.

Hazrat Abu Hayyan (may Allah have mercy on him) states that Hazrat Aamir (may Allah have mercy on him) said: There is no harm in accepting the annual gift for the deceased.

It is narrated from the freed slave of Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) bin Hussain (may Allah have mercy on him) that Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) bin Hussain (may Allah have mercy on him) said: There is no harm in receiving the annual gift for the deceased.

Hazrat Ma'qil, may Allah have mercy on him, narrates that when a person died after the completion of a year, Hazrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz, may Allah have mercy on him, would grant his heirs his annual stipend.