are among them, and he is among you. “And blood relatives are more entitled to one another.” This abrogated inheritance based on emigration and restored inheritance to blood relatives.

His saying, “according to the Book of Allah,” means: according to the ruling of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. It was also said that by the Book of Allah He means the Quran; that is, the division of shares which He set forth in Surah al-Nisa’. “Indeed, Allah has perfect knowledge of all things.”