Ibn al-Ḥasan transmitted to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Muḥammad (1) ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; Saʿdān ibn Naṣr narrated to us; Sufyān, on the authority of al-Zuhri, from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from his father, who said:

“I fell gravely ill in the Year of the Conquest—an illness that brought me to the brink of death. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to visit me. I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! I possess abundant wealth, and my only heir is a single daughter. May I bequeath all my property?’

He replied, ‘No.’

I asked, ‘Then one half?’

He said, ‘No.’

I asked, ‘Then one third?’

He said, ‘A third—and a third is still much. To leave your heirs wealthy is better than to leave them destitute, begging from people. Perhaps you will live on after all your companions, and you will never spend anything, seeking thereby the Face of Allah, without being rewarded for it—even the morsel you raise to your wife’s mouth.’

I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! I fear that I may die in a land from which I emigrated.’

He said, ‘Perhaps you will remain, so that some people benefit through you while others are harmed. O Allah, complete for my Companions their emigration and do not turn them back on their heels. But the unfortunate one is Saʿd ibn Khawlah.’”

He said this in pity for him, because he had died in Mecca. (2)

Agreed upon through multiple chains from al-Zuhri.