“O you who believe,

Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: Concerning the verse, “O you who believe, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will…” (4:19) that it was the practice of a man when he died that his relatives would have the right to inherit his wife, and one of them could marry her, or give her away in marriage, or refuse to have her married at all if he so desired. They used to be more entitled to dispose of her than her own relatives; therefore, this verse was revealed regarding that.

[Sahih Bukhari, Book 60, Number 103]

عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَرِثُوا النِّسَاءَ كَرْهًا الْآيَةَ قَالَ كَانُوا إِذَا مَاتَ الرَّجُلُ كَانَ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ أَحَقَّ بِامْرَأَتِهِ إِنْ شَاءَ بَعْضُهُمْ تَزَوَّجَهَا وَإِنْ شَاءُوا زَوَّجَهَا وَإِنْ شَاءُوا لَمْ يُزَوِّجْهَا فَهُمْ أَحَقُّ بِهَا مِنْ أَهْلِهَا فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فِي ذَلِكَ

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