On the authority of ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: "The maternal uncle is the heir of one who has no heir."(1)

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(1) Sound due to corroborating evidence, and this hadith differed over whether it is raised (marfūʿ) to the Prophet or stopped (mawqūf) at a Companion, with al-Bayhaqī favoring the stopped version.

It was also transmitted as raised (marfūʿ) by al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (6352), and by Ibn ʿAdī 5/1771 via the path of ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās, and by Abū ʿAwānah (5638), and al-Ṭaḥāwī in Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār 4/397, and al-Dāraquṭnī 4/85 via Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī, and Abū ʿAwānah (5638) via the path of Hārūn ibn Dāwūd al-Bazīʿī, and al-Dāraquṭnī 4/85 via the path of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Fāris and Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ṣakhr, and 4/85 via the path of Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zāʾidah Abū Zāʾidah — all six of them from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl.

It was also transmitted by Abū ʿAwānah (5639) via the path of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī, and (5640) via the path of Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, judge of Khwārazm, and al-Ṭaḥāwī 4/397 via the path of Hishām ibn Sulaymān al-Makhzūmī, and al-Ḥākim 4/344 via the path of Makhlad ibn Yazīd al-Ḥarrānī — all five of them (Abū ʿĀṣim, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Isḥāq, Hishām, and Makhlad) from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAmr ibn Muslim, with this chain. Ibn Jurayj explicitly stated that he heard it directly from him in Abū ʿAwānah (5640) and Ibn ʿAdī. Some of them add to it: "Allah and His Messenger are the protector (mawlā) of one who has no protector."

It was also transmitted as stopped (mawqūf) by al-Dārimī (2977), and al-Nasāʾī (6353) via the path of Makhlad ibn Yazīd al-Ḥarrānī, and Abū ʿAwānah (5642) from a group — thus with vagueness — and al-Ṭaḥāwī 4/397 from Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq, and al-Dāraquṭnī 4/85 via the path of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Fāris and Muḥammad ibn Sinān, and al-Bayhaqī 6/215 via the path of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq — all of them from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl.

It was also transmitted by ʿAbd al-Razzāq (16202), and from his path Abū ʿAwānah (5641) — both of them (Abū ʿĀṣim and ʿAbd al-Razzāq) from Ibn Jurayj, with it. In some versions there is the addition: "Allah and His Messenger are the protector of one who has no protector."

It is corroborated as raised (marfūʿ) by what precedes it.

Likewise, it is corroborated by the hadith of al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdīkarib, transmitted at length by Abū Dāwūd (2899) =