And to Dâwûd We gave Sulaymân. What an excellent servant! He was always turning back to Allah.
Sulaymân (peace be upon him) was the son of Dâwûd (peace be upon him), the king who killed Jâlût.
“And Sulaymân inherited Dâwûd”: for Ibn Kathîr, he inherited the kingship and the prophethood, not the wealth.
And Dâwûd and Sulaymân, when they judged about the field where a people's sheep had grazed at night.
We made Sulaymân understand it, and to each We gave judgment and knowledge.
Ibn Mas'ûd said, as Ibn Kathîr reports: it was a vineyard, and Dâwûd gave the sheep to the vineyard's owner.
Sulaymân proposed: let the vine owner use the sheep, and the shepherd restore the vine. Then each takes back his own.
Al-Hasan al-Basrî noted: Allah praised Sulaymân, and He did not blame Dâwûd. To each, judgment and knowledge.
The Prophet ﷺ told another judgment: two women each had a son with them. A wolf came and took one child.
Each said: it took your son. They went to Dâwûd, and he judged for the elder.
Then they went to Sulaymân. He said: “Bring me the knife, I will split him between the two.”
The younger cried: “Do not, may Allah have mercy on you, he is her son!” He judged in her favour.
He said: “My Lord, forgive me, and grant me a kingdom that will befit no one after me.
You are the Bestower.”
He asked forgiveness first, then the kingdom.
One night a jinn came at the Prophet ﷺ to break his prayer, and Allah gave him power over it.
He ﷺ wanted to tie it to a pillar of the mosque. Then he remembered his brother Sulaymân's prayer, and let it go.
A son who inherited a prophet. A prayer for a kingdom no one would ever have again.
But before the kingdom, there was a young man who understood what others did not.
Two judgments, one prayer: understanding first, then forgiveness, then the kingdom.
In your next dispute, look for the solution that lets each person keep what is truly theirs.