Volume 6, Book 60, Number 102:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
(In the Pre-Islamic Period ) the children used to inherit all the property but the parents used to in –
herit only through a will. So Allah cancelled that which He liked to cancel and put decreed that the
share of a son was to be twice the share of a daughter, and for the parents one-sixth for each one of
them, or one third, and for the wife one-eighth or one-fourth, and for the husband one-half, or one-
fourth.