He used to say, "The blood-money is the responsibility of the killer's paternal male relatives, and a woman does not inherit anything from her husband's blood-money," until Dahhak bin Sufyan said to him, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote to me instructing that I give the wife of Ashyam Dibabi a share of inheritance from her husband's blood-money."
أنه كان يقول: الدية للعاقلة، ولا ترث المرأة من دية زوجها شيئا، حتى قال له الضحاك بن سفيان: كتب إلي رسول الله ﷺ أن أورث امرأة أشيم الضبابي من دية زوجها.
Abu Dawud (2927), Tirmidhi (2110), Ibn Majah (2642), and Ahmad (15745) all narrated it from the hadith of Zuhri, from Saeed bin Musayab, that Umar bin Khattab said, and then he mentioned it. Scholars differ over whether Saeed bin Musayab actually heard from Umar, and the correct view is that he did hear from him. "Ashaym" is spelled with a fatha on the hamza and a sakin on the shin. And "Dababi" is spelled with a kasra on the dad, a name derived from a district in Kufa called Qalat al-Dibab.Dahhak bin Sufyan is the Kullabi, Abu Saeed, who was a companion of the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet appointed him to carry a banner, and he was placed in charge of the zakat collections of his people. Ibn Saad said, "He used to camp in Najd, among the clients of Dibba, and he was a governor over those of his people there who had accepted Islam." It has been reported in some narrations that he was Dahhak bin Qays al-Fihri.This is how it appears in the narration of Tabarani in Mujam al-Kabir (1/282), from Mughira bin Shuba, that Asaad bin Zurara said to Umar bin Khattab, "The Prophet ﷺ wrote to Dahhak bin Qays instructing him to give the wife of Ashaym al-Dababi her share of inheritance from her husband's blood money." Hafiz Haythami said in al-Majmu (4/230), "Its narrators are trustworthy." I say, it contains two matters that contradict the actual facts.The first is his statement "Dahhak bin Qays," which is not sahih, for the most that has been said about him is that his age at the time of the Prophet's death was eight years. Tabari said, "The Prophet died while he was still a young boy approaching adolescence." It appears that Hafiz Haythami became aware of this, for he said in al-Majmu, "Dahhak bin Sufyan."The second matter is his statement "Asaad bin Zurara." This contains a serious error, for Asaad bin Zurara died during the Prophet's lifetime, while the masjid was being built. Baghawi said, "It has reached me that he was the first of the companions to die after the migration, and the first deceased person the Prophet prayed over." Perhaps it was a copying error, as Hafiz said in his biographical entry in al-Isabah (1/35), changing "Saad bin Zurara" into "Asaad bin Zurara," or else he was a different Asaad bin Zurara. End.