Sufyan reported from Amir bin Saad, and Masaar reported from someone among the family of Saad, from Saad, that the Prophet ﷺ came to visit him while he was ill in Mecca.Saad said, "Messenger of Allah, shall I bequeath all of my wealth?"He replied, "No."Saad asked, "Then half?"He replied, "No."Saad asked, "Then a third?"He said, "A third, and a third is much," or "a great deal. It is better that you leave your heirs wealthy than to leave them poor, begging from people. Whatever you spend on your family as maintenance, you will be rewarded for it, even the morsel you raise to your wife's mouth."The narrator said, at that time Saad had only one daughter.Then Saad mentioned the matter of his emigration, and the Prophet ﷺ said, "May Allah have mercy on Ibn Afra. Perhaps Allah will raise you up so that some people will benefit through you and others will be harmed through you."
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بن إبراهيم قال سفيان عن عامر بن سعد وقال مسعر عن بعض آل سعد عن سعد أن النبي ﷺ دخل عليه يعوده وهو مريض بمكة فقلت يا رسول الله أوصي بمالي كله قال لا قلت فبالشطر قال لا قلت فبالثلث قال الثلث والثلث كبير أو كثير إنك أن تدع وارثك غنيا خير من أن تدعه فقيرا يتكفف الناس وإنك مهما أنفقت على أهلك من نفقة فإنك تؤجر فيها حتى اللقمة ترفعها إلى في امرأتك قال ولم يكن له يومئذ إلا ابنة فذكر سعد الهجرة فقال يرحم الله ابن عفراء ولعل الله يرفعك حتى ينتفع بك قوم ويضر بك آخرون
Its isnad is sahih. The fact that a member of Saad's family is unnamed in Masaar's narration does not cause harm, because the unnamed person is identified in Waki's narration as Amir bin Saad. See 1440, 1474, 1480."May Allah have mercy on Ibn Afra." This will appear in 1488 as, "May Allah have mercy on Saad bin Afra." What is well known in the narrations of this hadith is Saad bin Khawla, as mentioned previously in 1440. He was originally from Yemen, one of the allies of Banu Amir bin Luayy, and one of the migrants who was present at Badr, Uhud, the Trench, and Hudaybiya. He went to Makkah and died there. See Tabaqat 3/1/297.Perhaps he was also called Ibn Afra, with Afra being his mother's name. She is not Afra bint Ubayd al-Najariyya, who was an Ansari by lineage and had seven sons who were present at Badr. See Tabaqat 8/225.This narration here agrees with Bukhari's narration at 5/270–276, from Abu Naeem, from Sufyan. The Hafiz discussed this at length in Fath al-Bari when explaining it, and then favored something close to what we have said, that it is more likely that Afra was his mother's name and the other name was his father's."He raises you" means "he prolongs your life," and that is indeed what happened, for he lived after that for more than forty years, indeed close to fifty, since he died in the year 55 after the Hijra, though it is also said 58, which is the more well known view. This would mean he lived either 45 or 48 years after the Farewell Pilgrimage, as stated in Fath al-Bari.