352 — ‘Abd Allāh narrated to us: Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Numayr al-Hamdānī narrated to me: Wakī‘ narrated to us: al-A‘mash narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, who said: ‘Abd Allāh said:

“Whenever ‘Umar took a path and we followed him, we found it easy.”

“He was also presented with an inheritance case involving a wife and both parents. He divided the estate into four shares, giving the wife one quarter, the mother one third of the remainder, and the father two thirds of the remainder.”