Stipends of Heirs and the Dead

The report gathers cases concerning the stipends (ata') of the dead, of heirs, and of newborns. ¹

After the death of Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam said to Uthman: "Give me the stipend of Abd Allah, for his dependants have a better claim to it than the treasury." al-Zubayr was the executor of Ibn Mas'ud, and Uthman gave him fifteen thousand. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz used to give the heirs of a man who had earned his stipend and then died. He gave two-thirds of the stipend to a man who died eight months later. Ali was brought a foundling and enrolled him for a hundred. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz enrolled Marwan ibn Shuja', while still weaned, at ten dinars. Al-Husayn ibn Ali (may God be pleased with him), or al-Hasan, was asked when the share of a newborn becomes due, and he said: "When he cries out." ¹