Individual shares
What each heir receives — a daughter, a wife, a mother, a brother — and why.
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Individual shares
A wife's share in Islamic inheritance
A wife's share is one of the simplest rules in Faraid and one of the most often misapplied, usually in the same two ways: giving each of several wives a full…
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A son's share in Islamic inheritance
Unlike a daughter, a wife or a mother, a son has no fixed fraction. There is no verse giving him a half or a third. He is a residuary — he takes whatever…
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A mother's share in Islamic inheritance
A mother's share looks like the simplest rule in Faraid and contains the single most commonly misapplied one. Two sentences cover the ordinary cases; the third…
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Do grandchildren inherit in Islam?
This is the hardest question in Faraid to answer kindly, because the classical rule often gives nothing to the children of a son who died young — and those are…
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A daughter's share in Islamic inheritance
"A daughter gets half of what a son gets" is the sentence most people know, and it is true only in one of the several positions a daughter can be in. In others…
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Brother and sister share in Islamic inheritance
Siblings are where most family disputes start, for two reasons. The first is that "brother" covers three entirely different heirs who inherit on different…
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