Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You people recite the command of bequest before the payment of debt, but the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: The debt (of the deceased) will be paid before the bequest is fulfilled, and siblings from the mother's side will inherit from one another, whereas siblings from the father's side will not inherit from one another."

Harith narrates that a case was brought before Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), which was about paternal cousins, one of whom was also a maternal brother. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was informed that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) had ordered that the maternal brother be given the entire wealth, and had not ordered any payment to the other close relatives in this matter. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "May Allah have mercy on Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), he was a wise man. If I were in his place, I would have given him (the maternal brother) one-sixth, and the remaining wealth I would have distributed among the (other paternal cousins)."

Mas'ud bin Hakam Thaqafi narrates that a case was brought before Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), which was about a woman who had left behind her husband, her mother, maternal siblings, and paternal siblings among her heirs. So Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) made the maternal siblings and the full siblings equal partners with each other in the share, which was about one third. Then a person said to him: "In such-and-such year, you did not make them partners with each other." So Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The decision we gave at that time was for that time; today's decision is what we have now given."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) made his companions brothers to one another, so they used to inherit from each other, until this verse was revealed: "Only (blood) relatives are heirs of one another." After that, people began to inherit from one another according to lineage.

Sayyiduna Wathilah bin Asqa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“A woman inherits from three people: from her freed slave (male or female), from her children, and from the child because of whom she performed li’an (mutual cursing).”

Sayyiduna Wathilah bin Asqa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“A woman inherits in three cases: the inheritance of her freed (slave or slave-girl), the inheritance of one whom she raised (i.e., an abandoned child whom she brought up), and the one because of whom she performed li’an (mutual cursing).”This narration is also transmitted with another chain.

This same narration is also transmitted with another chain of narration from Sayyiduna Wathilah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).