#2089

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: About the Qur'anic verse: "It is not lawful for you forcibly to inherit the woman (of your deceased kinsmen), nor (that) ye should put constraint upon them. When a man died, his relatives had more right to his wife then her own guardian. If any one of them wanted to marry her, he did so; or they married her (to some other person), and if they did not want to marry her, they did so. So this verse was revealed about the matter

حدثنا احمد بن منيع، حدثنا اسباط بن محمد، حدثنا الشيباني، عن عكرمة، عن ابن عباس، - قال الشيباني وذكره عطاء ابو الحسن السوايي ولا اظنه الا عن ابن عباس، - في هذه الاية { لا يحل لكم ان ترثوا النساء كرها ولا تعضلوهن } قال كان الرجل اذا مات كان اولياوه احق بامراته من ولي نفسها ان شاء بعضهم زوجها او زوجوها وان شاءوا لم يزوجوها فنزلت هذه الاية في ذلك