Jami' at-Tirmidhi 975

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah came to visit me while I was sick. He said: 'Do you have a will?' I said: 'Yes.' He said: 'For how much?' I said: 'All of my wealth, for the cause of Allah.' He said: 'What did you leave for your children?'" He (Sa'd) said: "They are rich in goodness.' He said: 'Will a tenth.'" He (Sa'd) said: "He (pbuh) continued decreasing it until he said: 'Will a third, and a third is too great.'" (One of the narrators:) Abdur-Rahman said: "We considered it recommended that it be less than a third, since the Messenger of Allah said: 'And a third is too great.'"

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَنَحْنُ نَسْتَحِبُّ أَنْ يَنْقُصَ مِنَ الثُّلُثِ لِقَوْلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَالثُّلُثُ كَثِيرٌ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ سَعْدٍ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ عَنْهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ عَنْهُ وَالثُّلُثُ كَبِيرٌ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ لاَ يَرَوْنَ أَنْ يُوصِيَ الرَّجُلُ بِأَكْثَرَ مِنَ الثُّلُثِ وَيَسْتَحِبُّونَ أَنْ يَنْقُصَ مِنَ الثُّلُثِ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ كَانُوا يَسْتَحِبُّونَ فِي الْوَصِيَّةِ الْخُمُسَ دُونَ الرُّبُعِ وَالرُّبُعَ دُونَ الثُّلُثِ وَمَنْ أَوْصَى بِالثُّلُثِ فَلَمْ يَتْرُكْ شَيْئًا وَلاَ يَجُوزُ لَهُ إِلاَّ الثُّلُثُ

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• al-Albani

  صحيح وقوله أوص بالعشر ضعيف

  in صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 975

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 3072عَن سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ قَالَ: عَادَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَنَا مَرِيضٌ فَقَالَ: «أَوْصَيْتَ؟» قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: «بِكَمْ؟» قُلْتُ: بِمَالِي كُلِّهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ. قَالَ: «فَمَا تَرَكْتَ لِو

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1628cSahih Muslim 1628iSunan an-Nasa'i 3632Muwatta' Malik 37-4Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 31559Musnad Abi Ya'la 833

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   One of the Ten (promised Paradise), and the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Godd. 50 AH or 51 AH or 54 AH, also said: 56 AH, also said: 57 AH, also said: 58 AH. And the second is better known
   سَعْد بْن أَبِي وَقَّاصأحد العشرة ، وأول من رمى بسهم في سبيل الله
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥabīb al-Sulamī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 74 AH, Ibn Ḥajar reported his death from Ibn Qāniʿ in the year 85 AH, also said: 70 AH, also said: 72 AH, also said: 73 AH, also said 92 AH, ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Qāniʿ said, as al-Dhahabī reported from him: 105 AH, and he said: it is an error, not to be followed
   أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib

   Truthful (ṣadūq), became confused (ikhtalaṭa)d. 133 AH, or 134 AH, or 136 AH, or 137 AH
   عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِصدوق اختلط
   عن
4. 4
   Jarīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
   جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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Mishkat al-Masabih 3072