English Translation

Ahmad ibn Ali al-Asbahani the hafiz informed us: Ibrahim ibn Abdullah al-Asbahani narrated to us: Isma'il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith al-Qattan narrated to us: al-Hasan ibn Isa narrated to us: Ibn al-Mubarak informed us: Sufyan narrated from al-A'mash from Ibrahim that Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) used to share the grandfather with the siblings up to six, he being the sixth. If they exceeded that, he gave him a sixth. He gave every person with a fixed share their share, did not give inheritance to a maternal sibling alongside the grandfather, did not count a paternal half-brother alongside a full brother, and did not give the grandfather more than a sixth alongside a child unless there was no other heir. When there was a full sister, a paternal half-brother, and a grandfather, he gave the sister half and divided the other half between the grandfather and the brother. When there was a full sister, a paternal half-brother and half-sister, and a grandfather, he made it from ten parts: the full sister received five, the grandfather two, the brother two, and the paternal half-sister one.