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abudawud:3557ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Muʿāwiyah b. Hishām > Sufyān > Ḥabīb / Ibn Abū Thābit > Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj > Ṭāriq al-Makkī > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ decided a case of a woman from the Ansar to whom an orchard of date-palms was given by her son. She then died. Her son said: I gave it to her for her life, and she has brothers. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: It belongs to her during her life and after death. He then said: I gave a sadaqah (charity to her. He replied: It is more unexpected from you.  

أبو داود:٣٥٥٧حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ طَارِقٍ الْمَكِّيِّ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي امْرَأَةٍ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ أَعْطَاهَا ابْنُهَا حَدِيقَةً مِنْ نَخْلٍ فَمَاتَتْ فَقَالَ ابْنُهَا إِنَّمَا أَعْطَيْتُهَا حَيَاتَهَا وَلَهُ إِخْوَةٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ هِيَ لَهَا حَيَاتَهَا وَمَوْتَهَا قَالَ كُنْتُ تَصَدَّقْتُ بِهَا عَلَيْهَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ أَبْعَدُ لَكَ  


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bayhaqi:11977[Chain 1] Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Lakhmī > ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr [Chain 2] al-Ḥaḍramī > ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Muʿāwiyah b. Hishām > Sufyān > Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj [Chain 3] ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd > Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah from my father > Muʿāwiyah b. Hishām > Sufyān > Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit > Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj > Ṭāriq al-Makkī > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ decided a case involving a woman from the Ansar who was given a garden of palm trees by her son. However, she passed away. Her son said, "I only gave her the gift of her life, and she has brothers." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "That garden belonged to her in her life and in her death." The son replied, "But I had given it to her as a charity." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "That is even more distant for you."  

البيهقي:١١٩٧٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ اللَّخْمِيُّ ثنا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ ح قَالَ وَثنا الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَا ثنا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ ح وَأَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا أَبِي ثنا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ طَارِقٍ الْمَكِّيِّ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَضَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي امْرَأَةٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَعْطَاهَا ابْنُهَا حَدِيقَةً مِنْ نَخْلٍ فَمَاتَتْ فَقَالَ ابْنُهَا إِنَّمَا أَعْطَيْتُهَا حَيَاتَهَا وَلَهُ أُخْوَةٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ هِيَ لَهَا حَيَاتَهَا وَمَوْتَهَا قَالَ فَإِنِّي كُنْتُ تَصَدَّقْتُ بِهَا عَلَيْهَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ أَبْعَدُ لَكَ  

رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ فِي السُّنَنِ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ نَحْوَ رِوَايَةِ ابْنِهِ عَنْهُ وَلَيْسَ بِالْقَوِيِّ وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ بِخِلَافِ ذَلِكَ وَهُوَ مَذْكُورٌ فِي هَذَا الْبَابِ