(Such of you as die and leave behind them wives…) [2:234]. Abu ‘Amr Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Marwazi informed me in his epistle> Abu’l-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Haddadi> Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Khalid> Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Hanzali who said: “I have related from Muqatil ibn Hayyan regarding this verse [the following]: a man from Ta’if went to Medina. This man had children: men and women, and he also had with him his parents and wife. This man later died in Medina and his matter was reported to the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace. The Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, gave reasonably to the man’s parents and children but did not give anything to his wife. However, he ordered them to spend on her from her husband’s bequest for a year”.
Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi , trans. Mokrane Guezzou
