حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ الْأَشْجَعِيُّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنْ عِکْرِمَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا وَإِذَا حَضَرَ الْقِسْمَةَ أُولُو الْقُرْبَی وَالْيَتَامَی وَالْمَسَاکِينُ قَالَ هِيَ مُحْکَمَةٌ وَلَيْسَتْ بِمَنْسُوخَةٍ تَابَعَهُ سَعِيدٌ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ
صحیح بخاری · Hadith 4578
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.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020