[1089] The legal setting of the very charged issue of inheritance is revisited in the sura’s conclusion so as to sum up and highlight its importance in setting apart the new order which the community should follow as distinct from earlier heathen practices. ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (رضي الله عنه) said: “The issue of most importance that I leave behind is that of al-kalālah ˹a person with no living parents and who is without children˺. I have never asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) with regards to an issue more than this, and he has never been rougher with me with regards to an issue more than this. He ˹eventually˺ poked my chest with his finger and said: “ʿUmar! Is not the aya of summer ˹which was revealed in summer-time˺ at the end of al-Nisā enough ˹as a ruling˺ for you?” (Muslim: 567)
Moreover, this aya can be seen as a prelude to the next sura which carries on explaining the laws and rules for the Believing community, in yet greater detail.