Abu Salama bin Abdul-Rahman reported that Abu Hurairah said, "Whenever a man who had died in debt was brought to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he would ask, 'Did he leave behind anything to settle his debt?' If he was told that the man had left enough to cover it, he would pray over him. Otherwise he would say, 'You pray over your companion.'Then, when Allah granted him victory after victory, he said, 'I am closer to the believers than they are to themselves. So whoever dies leaving a debt, I will settle it, and whoever leaves property, it belongs to his heirs.'"
حدثنا عبد الملك بن شعيب بن الليث حدثني أبي عن جدي حدثني عقيل ح و حدثني زهير بن حرب حدثنا يعقوب بن إبراهيم حدثنا ابن أخي ابن شهاب ح و حدثنا ابن نمير حدثنا أبي حدثنا ابن أبي ذئب كلهم عن الزهري بهذا الإسناد هذا الحديث