Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
(In the Pre-Islamic Period ) the children used to inherit all the property but the parents used to inherit only through a will. So Allah cancelled that which He liked to cancel and put decreed that the share of a son was to be twice the share of a daughter, and for the parents one-sixth for each one of them, or one third, and for the wife one-eighth or one-fourth, and for the husband one-half, or one-fourth.
Reference | : Sahih al-Bukhari 4578 |
In-book reference | : Book 65, Hadith 100 |
USC-MSA web (English) reference | : Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 102 |
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