Hadith 15746

(حديث مرفوع) حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُهُ مِنَ الزُّهْرِيِّ ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ ، قَالَ : الدِّيَةُ لِلْعَاقِلَةِ ، وَلَا تَرِثُ الْمَرْأَةُ مِنْ دِيَةِ زَوْجِهَا ، حَتَّى أَخْبَرَهُ الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ الْكِلَابِيُّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ أَنْ " أُوَرِّثَ امْرَأَةَ أَشْيَمَ الضَّبَابِيِّ مِنْ دِيَةِ زَوْجِهَا " ، فَرَجَعَ عُمَرُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ .
Saeed bin Musayyib says that the opinion of Sayyiduna Umar was that only the 'asaba (male agnates) should receive the blood money (diyah), and a woman should not inherit from her husband's blood money, until Sayyiduna Dahhak bin Sufyan informed him that the Prophet (ﷺ) wrote to me in a letter: that I should consider the wife of Ashyam Dhibabi as an heir in her husband's blood money. Upon this, Sayyiduna Umar withdrew his opinion.
Hadith Reference مسند احمد / مسند المكيين / 15746
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