Worked examples
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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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The basics
Islamic inheritance law explained
Islamic inheritance — faraid — is not a percentage split decided by the family. It is a fixed system: the Qur'an names certain heirs and gives each of them a…
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The basics
How inheritance is divided in Islam
This is the practical version: what to do, in order, with a pen and the actual numbers. For the reasoning behind each step, read Islamic inheritance law…
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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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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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