Muwatta' Malik 27-10

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Uthman ibn Ishaq ibn Kharasha that Qabisa ibn Dhu'ayb said, "A grandmother came to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and asked him for her inheritance. Abu Bakr said to her, 'You have nothing in the Book of Allah, and I do not know that you have anything in the sunna of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Go away therefore, until I have questioned the people.' (i.e.the Companions). He questioned the people, and al-Mughira ibn Shuba said, 'I was present with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when he gave the grandmother a sixth.' Abu Bakr said, 'Was there anybody else with you?' Muhammad ibn Maslama al-Ansari stood up and said the like of what al-Mughira said. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq gave it to her. Then the other grandmother came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and asked him for her inheritance. He said to her, "You have nothing in the Book of Allah, and what has been decided is only for other than you, and I am not one to add to the fixed shares, other than that sixth. If there are two of you together, it is between you. If eitherof you is left alone with it, it is hers."

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Ibn Ḥazm

  لا يصح حديث قبيصة منقطع لإنه لم يدرك أبا بكر ولا سمعه من المغيرة ولا محمد

  machine translationThe hadith of Qabīṣah is not authentic (ṣaḥīḥ); it is broken in its chain (munqaṭiʿ), because he did not meet Abū Bakr, nor did he hear it from al-Mughīrah or Muḥammad. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1025
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث مرسل عند بعض أهل العلم لأنه لم يذكر فيه سماع لقبيصة من أبي بكر ولا شهود لتلك القصة

  machine translationIt is a mursal hadith according to some of the people of knowledge, because no hearing by Qabīṣah from Abū Bakr is mentioned in it, nor his presence at that incident. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1025
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  إسناده صحيح لثقة رجاله إلا أن صورته مرسل

  machine translationIts chain is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), because its narrators are trustworthy (thiqah), except that its form is mursal. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1025

Narrators

1. 1
   Muḥammad b. Maslamah b. Salamah al-Khazrajī

   a well-known Companiond. Ibn al-Barqī said: 42 AH. Al-Madāʾinī and others said: 43 AH. Al-Wāqidī said: 46 AH. Also said: 47 AH
   مُحَمَّد بْن مَسْلَمَة بْن سَلَمَة الخَزْرَجِيّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Qabīṣah b. Dhuʾayb al-Khuzāʿī

   He saw the Prophet (ruʾyah) but did not meet him as a Companiond. 86 AH, or: 87 AH or 88 AH, or: 89 AH
   قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ ذُؤَيْبٍ؛له رؤية
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUthmān b. Isḥāq b. Kharashah

   Deemed trustworthy by Ibn Maʿīn in the narration of al-Dūrī
   عُثْمَانَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خَرَشَةَوثقه ابن معين في رواية الدوري
   عن
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.