حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الشَّيْبَانِيُّ عَنْ عِکْرِمَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ وَذَکَرَهُ عَطَائٌ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ السُّوَائِيُّ وَلَا أَظُنُّهُ إِلَّا عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ لَا يَحِلُّ لَکُمْ أَنْ تَرِثُوا النِّسَائَ کَرْهًا وَلَا تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ قَالَ کَانَ الرَّجُلُ إِذَا مَاتَ کَانَ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ أَحَقَّ بِامْرَأَتِهِ مِنْ وَلِيِّ نَفْسِهَا إِنْ شَائَ بَعْضُهُمْ زَوَّجَهَا أَوْ زَوَّجُوهَا وَإِنْ شَائُوا لَمْ يُزَوِّجُوهَا فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فِي ذَلِکَ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 2089
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: About the Quranic verse: "It is not lawful for you forcibly to inherit the woman (of your deceased kinsmen), nor (that) ye should put constraint upon them. When a man died, his relatives had more right to his wife then her own guardian. If any one of them wanted to marry her, he did so; or they married her (to some other person), and if they did not want to marry her, they did so. So this verse was revealed about the matter.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020