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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12687

✧ Prioritizing Debt over the Will

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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ قَالَا: ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ، أَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَكَمِ، أَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي شَبِيبُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ يَحْيَى بْنَ أَبِي أُنَيْسَةَ الْجَزَرِيَّ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:

الدَّيْنُ قَبْلَ الْوَصِيَّةِ، وَلَيْسَ لِوَارِثٍ وَصِيَّةٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq and ʾAbū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan
  2. Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam
  3. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakam
  4. Ibn Wahb
  5. Shabīb b. Saʿīd
  6. Yaḥyá b. Abū Unaysah al-Jazarī Yuḥaddith
  7. Abū Isḥāq al-Hamdānī
  8. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
  9. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
  10. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Machine translation, not reviewed

Debt comes before the bequest, and there is no bequest for an heir.

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  • Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

    يحيى بن أبي أنيسة ضعيف

    machine translationYaḥyā b. Abī Unaysah is weak (ḍaʿīf).

    in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 12687
  • Shawkānī

    إسناده ضعيف ولكنه معتضد بالاتفاق

    machine translationIts chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf), but it is supported by the agreement [of the scholars].

    in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 12687
  • ابن الملقن

    يحيى هذا متروك كما قاله أحمد وغيره وعاصم فيه مقال

    machine translationThis Yaḥyā is abandoned (matrūk), as Aḥmad and others said, and there is criticism concerning ʿĀṣim.

    in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 12687

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3565

Narrators

  1. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    عن
  2. ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
    عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوق
    عن
  3. Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
    أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
    يحدث عن
  4. Yaḥyá b. Abī Unaysah
    weak (ḍaʿīf).d. 146 AH.
    يَحْيَى بْنَ أَبِي أُنَيْسَةَ الْجَزَرِيَّضعيف .
    سمع
  5. Abī
    no harm in his hadith as narrated from him by his son Aḥmad, not as narrated by Ibn Wahbd. 186 AH
    شَبِيبُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍلا بأس بحديثه من رواية ابنه أحمد عنه ، لا من رواية ابن وهب
    أخبرني
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
    ابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
    أنا
  7. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakam
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 268 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَكَمِثقة
    أنا
  8. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
    d. 346 AH
    أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ
    حدثنا
  9. Abū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan
    d. 421 AH
    وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ
    أخبرنا
  10. al-Bayhaqī
    d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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