#2187 Abu Nu'aym informed us, Zuhayr narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, who said: I entered upon Shurayh while Amir, Ibrahim, and Abd al-Rahman bin Abd Allah were with him, regarding the inheritance of a woman from among us named al-Aliyah. She had left behind her husband, her mother, her paternal brother, and her grandfather. He said to me: "Is there any sister?" I said: "No." He said: "For the husband is the half, and for the mother is the third." He [Abu Ishaq] said: I strove to get him to answer me further, but he did not answer me except with that. Then Ibrahim, Amir, and Abd al-Rahman bin Abd Allah said: "No one has come with a more problematic inheritance case than the inheritance case you have brought." He said: So I went to Abidah al-Salmani, and it used to be said: there is no one in Kufa more knowledgeable in inheritance than Abidah and al-Harith al-A'war. Abidah used to sit in the mosque, and whenever an inheritance case involving a grandfather came to Shurayh, he would refer them to Abidah, who would then determine the shares. So I asked him, and he said: "If you wish, I will inform you of the ruling of Abd Allah bin Mas'ud regarding this: He assigned three shares to the husband, which is the half; for the mother, one third of what remains, which is one-sixth of the total estate; one share for the brother, and one share for the grandfather."