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Who was right about Fadak, Fatima or Abu Bakr?

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Fatima right on inheritance, Abu Bakr right on fay'

LessonRecorded 28 Feb 2020From the Mind of a MuftiSegment 4 of 11 in the recording2020-02-28-S04

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Both, in his view: Fatima was right that prophets can be inherited from, but Fadak was fay' belonging to the public, so Abu Bakr was right to keep it under the state.

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Mufti Abu Layth says he now feels both were right in their own way. On inheritance he sides with Fatima, citing the Quran's statements that Sulayman inherited from Dawud, including a wealthy kingdom, and Zakariya's prayer for an heir, and calling it a weak argument that the inheritance verses addressed to the Prophet did not include him. But having looked into it in detail, he says the debate makes more sense as one about fay': such great wealth was needed by the state for travellers and crises and cannot become the ruler's personal property, so he sees Abu Bakr's angle as more correct, though the hadith frames it as inheritance.

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Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Fatima was right from the perspective of inheritance, since the Quran suggests prophets do inherit.

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“I do think from an inheritance perspective for tomorrow deal on her was right I feel because looking at it and looking at these arguments from the Quran”

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for a a slave a servant to kind of help her and the Prophet when he finds out that this is what she came for he comes to visit her and he tells her that shall I tell you something better than that and that is to recite this dua every day but he doesn't give her the slave now my point is that it's within the Sunni sources it appears that during the lifetime of the Prophet Fatima was not given this was not gifted this although the Shia sources claimed it was so that changes the kind of debate slightly from the two perspectives we all agree that

16:38

during our workers after the prophecy lots and Fatima comes to a worker she asks for it she isn't given it she is upset with Abu Bakr that much is kind of true and I do think from an inheritance perspective for tomorrow deal on her was right I feel because looking at it and looking at these arguments from the Quran but this is the thing I kind of now feel both were right in their own way and I want to explain this that Fatima in the sense that in the Quranic mentions that the prophets do inherit like what what is the Suleiman Dawood and Solomon inherited

17:18

from the hood and we know that wasn't prophet just prophethood we know that the kingdom of David goes on to become the kingdom of Solomon he becomes one of the most powerful kingdoms in its day in age and one of the most wealthiest kingdom of Solomon so we know that was wealth we know that the you've got Zechariah saying Ali Salam in the Quran were in me little Molly I mean healthy I I fear these people after me that Robbie Hubley that grant me a child he says to Allah Jerry Thani that may inherit from me we're assuming a yahoo so we know that this

17:56

inheritance thing does seem to see is the Quran seems to suggest or inclined that they do inherit and when Allah says to the Prophet fit you see Camilo Feola dekum Allah tells you about your children that inheritance is like this and a girl gets this much and a boy Allah or to have then said by the way we don't mean you we are so low we mean normal people rest of the Muslims not the Prophet but here the Prophet is being revealed on to like this verse but yet it doesn't include him and there's no mention of this I do feel that that is a weak argument from that perspective

18:35

so I do agree with for tomorrow the Allahu Allah in that sense about inheritance however after looking into this in a lot of detail I do see that the debate if not about inheritance if about Fame makes more sense that PHA belong because it was so much wealth it was something the state needed to support the general Muslims like travelers times of Christ times like these things can't become personal properties that the Imam whatever he gets as an imam is not

19:13

really his personal property so if today an imam went out on war and he got a certain landing truce and that becomes fee then that really is not his personal property to say okay you know why I'm gonna give this to my nephew that's not how I mean that would upset a lot of Muslims because they'll be like no this is Muslim general kind of welfare property it's an endowment so I see that angle of a worker is more correct although the line of arguing of myrath seems to not then make a bit of sense that because they're discussing inheritance whereas they should have

19:51

been really discussing fate so that's the thing one thing that definitely gets quite I think after fought after Abu Bakr Omar Odilo Han in sahih al-bukhari mentions that he gives the guardianship of it to Ali on a bus and then they start arguing over it and what happens in fact Mahadi seems to use his words that they insult each other and actually swear at each other and it mentions the sways as well this is Ali and Abbas to each other and and then it mentions Omar saying to them that look I didn't give this to you as your personal you know property I gave you to just manage it but as by the way those who manage it do

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  title = {{Who was right about Fadak, Fatima or Abu Bakr?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {2},
  date = {2020-02-28},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-02-28-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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