Kharijah bin Zaid narrates from his father (Zaid bin Thabit, may Allah be pleased with him): Previously, people of every community used to inherit from one another, except in the case when a person died a sudden death due to a house collapsing, burning, war, or any other reason. In such cases, those people would not inherit from one another; rather, among the living, their close relatives would inherit from them. It seemed as if there was no relationship between that person and the one who died a sudden death.