Harith narrates that a case was brought before Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding paternal cousins, one of whom was a maternal brother, while Hazrat Ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) had given the entire inheritance to the maternal brother. Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: May Allah have mercy on Abu Abdur Rahman, he was indeed a jurist. If it were up to me, I would have given him one-sixth, and then he would have shared the remainder of the wealth with the other paternal cousins.