Volume 8, Book 80, Number 731:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
(During the early days of Islam), the inheritance used to be given to one’s offspring and legacy
used to be bequeathed to the parents, then Allah cancelled what He wished from that order and de –
creed that the male should be given the equivalent of the portion of two females, and for the parents
one-sixth for each of them, and for one’s wife one-eighth (if the deceased has children) and one-
fourth (if he has no children), for one’s husband one-half (if the deceased has no children) and one-
fourth (if she has children).”