Ali, for it is narrated from him as the opinion of the group, and another opinion from him is that only his agnates (asaba) who pay his blood money (aqilah) inherit it. Umar used to hold this view, then he retracted it when he received information from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) regarding the woman's inheritance from her husband's blood money. Sa'id said (25): Sufyan narrated to us, al-Zuhri narrated to us, that he heard Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib saying: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, used to say: The blood money belongs to the aqilah, and the woman does not inherit anything from her husband's blood money. Then al-Dahhak al-Kilabi said to him: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) wrote to me, instructing me to allow the wife of Ashyam al-Dhibabi to inherit from the blood money of her husband, Ashyam. Al-Tirmidhi said: This is a hasan sahih (good and authentic) hadith. Imam Ahmad (26) narrated with his chain of authority from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) decreed that the blood money is an inheritance between the heirs of the murdered person according to their shares. With his chain of authority (27), he narrated from Ibn Abbas that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The woman inherits from the wealth and blood money of her husband, and he inherits from her wealth and blood money, as long as neither of them killed the other." However, in its chain of authority is a man who is unknown (majhul). Ibrahim said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The blood money is based on inheritance, and the blood money payment (aqilah) is upon the agnates (asaba) (28)." Abu Thawr said: It is distributed according to inheritance, and his debts are not paid from it, nor are his wills executed from it. A similar view is reported from Ahmad. Al-Khiraqi mentioned regarding a man who bequeathed a third of his wealth to a person, then was murdered and his blood money was taken, that the legatee of the third receives one-third of the blood money, in one of the two narrations. The other is that the legatee of the third receives nothing from the blood money, and the basis of this is: Is the blood money (29) considered the property of the deceased or the property of the heirs from the outset? There are two narrations regarding this; one is that it originates as
(25) In: Chapter on the inheritance of a woman from the blood money of her husband. Sunan Sa'id ibn Mansur 1/98. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud, in: Chapter on a woman inheriting from the blood money of her husband, from the Book of Shares. Sunan Abi Dawud 2/117. And al-Tirmidhi, in: Chapter on what is mentioned regarding the inheritance of a woman from the blood money of her husband, from the Chapters of Shares. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 8/260. And Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on inheritance from blood money, from the Book of Blood Money. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/883. (26) In: al-Musnad 2/224. (27) Recorded by Ibn Majah, in: Chapter on the inheritance of the killer, from the Book of Shares. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/914. And al-Daraqutni, in: Book of Shares. Sunan al-Daraqutni 4/75, 76. Both from Abdullah ibn 'Amr. (28) Recorded by Sa'id ibn Mansur, in: Chapter on the inheritance of a woman from the blood money of her husband. al-Sunan 1/99. (29) Omitted from: M.