Guides
Worked examples and plain explanations of how Islamic inheritance is divided.
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Islamic wills by country
Does Islamic inheritance apply in the UK?
Does Islamic inheritance apply in the UK?The short answer is no, not on its own. If you die in England or Wales without a valid will, your estate is divided by…
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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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Individual shares
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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Individual shares
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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Rules and doctrines
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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