Rules and doctrines
Awl, radd, exclusion and the cases where the four schools differ.
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Rules and doctrines
Who is excluded from Islamic inheritance
Relatives who expected a share and received nothing always want to know why. The answer is almost never arbitrary: Faraid has a precise set of exclusion rules…
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Rules and doctrines
Difference between Hanafi and Shafi'i inheritance
People often assume that choosing a school changes the whole calculation. It almost never does. The shares are explicit Qur'anic text, so for the overwhelming…
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Rules and doctrines
Awl and radd explained
Add up the fixed shares in a real estate and they often do not come to exactly one. Sometimes they claim more than the whole estate; sometimes they leave a…
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Ahl-e-Hadith inheritance rules
People who follow the Ahl-e-Hadith orientation — often called Ghair Muqallid in Pakistan — are regularly told that inheritance "works differently" for them…
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