Volume 4, Book 56, Number 780:
Narrated Jabir:
My father had died in debt. So I came to the Prophet and said, “My father (died) leaving unpaid
debts, and I have nothing except the yield of his date palms; and their yield for many years will not
cover his debts. So please come with me, so that the creditors may not misbehave with me.” The
Prophet went round one of the heaps of dates and invoked (Allah), and then did the same with an –
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other heap and sat on it and said, “Measure (for them).” He paid them their rights and what remained
was as much as had been paid to them.