Hadith / Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba / 26:410

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 26:410

The Book of Inheritance (Fara'id)

كتاب الفرائض

Hadith 26:410

Waki’ narrated to us, he said: Ja’far ibn Burqan narrated to us, from Maymun ibn Mihran, who said: Al-‘Urs ibn Qays al-Kindi sent for me and asked me about two Christian brothers, one of whom accepted Islam while the other died and left behind wealth. I said: Mu’awiyah used to say, "If he were a Christian, he would have inherited from him, and Islam did not increase him [the Muslim brother] except in severity [i.e., restriction]." Al-‘Urs ibn Qays said: We know that, and ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, regarding the paternal aunt of al-Ash’ath ibn Qays who died while she was a Jewess, did not allow him to inherit anything from her.

حدثنا وكيع قال ثنا جعفر بن برقان عن ميمون بن مهران قال أرسل إلي العرس بن قيس الكندي فسألني عن أخوين نصرانيين أسلم أحدهما ومات الآخر وترك مالا فقلت كان معاوية يقول لو كان نصرانيا ورثه فلم يزده الإسلام إلا شدة قال العرس بن قيس إنا ذلك علمنا وعمر بن الخطاب في عمة الأشعث بن قيس ماتت وهي يهودية فلم يورثه عمر منها شيئا