Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 1-378b
✧ Shaybah regarding 'Uthman regarding Abu Talhah al-'Abdari, the keeper of the Ka'bah
"عَنْ عَائشَةَ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ رَسُولِ الله ﷺ أَرْسَلَتْ إِلَى أَبِى بَكْر تَسْأَلُهُ مِيرَاثَهَا مِنْ رَسُولِ الله ﷺ مِمَّا أَفَاءَ الله عَلَى رَسُولِهِ، وَفَاطِمَة حِينَئِذٍ تَطْلُبُ صَدَقَةَ النَّبِى ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَفَدَكَ وَمَا بَقىَ مِن خُمُسِ خَيْبَرَ، فَقَالْ أَبو بَكْرٍ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ الله ﷺ قَالَ: لَا نُورَثُ مَا تَرَكْنَاهُ صَدَقةٌ، إِنَّمَا يَأكُلُ آلُ مُحمدٍ مِنْ هَذَا الْمَالِ - يَعْنِى مَالَ الله - لَيْسَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَزِيدُوا عَلَى الْمَأَكَلِ، وَإِنَّى والله لَا أُغَيِّرُ صَدَقَاتِ النَّبِىِّ ﷺ عَنْ حَاِلهَا الَّتِى كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ فِى عَهْدِ النَّبِىِّ ﷺ، وَلأَعْمَلَنَّ فِيهَا بِمَا عَمِلَ النَّبِىُّ ﷺ فِيهَا، فَأَبَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَنْ يَدْفَعَ إِلَى فَاطِمَةَ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا، فَوَجَدَتْ فَاطمَةُ عَلَى أَبِى بَكْر مِنْ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: والَّذِى نَفْسِى بِيَدِهِ لَقَرَابَةُ رَسُولِ الله ﷺ أَحَبُّ إِلىَّ أَنْ أَصِلَ مِنْ قَرابَتِى، فَأمَّا الَّذِى شَجَرَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الصَّدقَاتِ فَإِنِّى (لا آلو) فِيهَا عَنِ الْحَقِّ، وَإِنِّى لَمْ أَكُنْ لأَتْرُكَ فِيهَا أَمْرًا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ الله ﷺ يَصْنَعُهُ فِيهَا إِلَّا صَنَعْتُهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿĀʾshah
- Fāṭimah Bint
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From ʿĀʾishah: Fāṭimah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, sent to Abū Bakr asking him for her inheritance from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, from what Allah had granted as spoils to His Messenger. At that time Fāṭimah was claiming the charity (ṣadaqah) of the Prophet ﷺ in Medina, and Fadak, and what remained of the fifth (khumus) of Khaybar. Abū Bakr said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'We are not inherited from; what we leave behind is charity. The family of Muḥammad only eat from this wealth' - meaning the wealth of Allah - 'they have no right to exceed eating from it.' And by Allah, I will not change the charities of the Prophet ﷺ from the condition in which they were in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, and I will act regarding them as the Prophet ﷺ acted regarding them. So Abū Bakr refused to hand over anything of it to Fāṭimah, and Fāṭimah was angry with Abū Bakr because of that. Abū Bakr said: By the One in whose hand is my soul, the kinship of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is dearer to me to maintain than my own kinship. As for the dispute that has arisen between me and you over these charities, I will not fall short in them of the truth, and I will not leave any matter that I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ doing in them except that I will do it."
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Notes
ابن سعد، [حم] أحمد [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم [د] أبو داود [ن] النسائي وابن الجارود، وأبو عوانة [حب] ابن حبّان [ق] البيهقى في السنن
machine translationIbn Saʿd; [Ḥm] Aḥmad; [Kh] al-Bukhārī; [M] Muslim; [D] Abū Dāwūd; [N] al-Nasāʾī; and Ibn al-Jārūd, Abū ʿAwānah; [Ḥb] Ibn Ḥibbān; [Q] al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan.
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