Inheritance and wasiya

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Inheritance: the wasiya (status, third, beneficiaries), Quranic and agnatic heirs, hajb, qasm and aoul, debts and funeral expenses. Each page presents the ruling, the evidence and the schools' differences.

Pages of this pillar

1. The wasiya (will): status and limits
2. Heirs, fixed shares and hajb
3. Dividing shares: qasm and aoul
4. Debts and funeral expenses
5. Shares of children and descendants
6. Brothers and sisters as heirs
7. Radd (return) and concurrence of shares
8. Special cases in succession
9. 'Asaba: agnates and the estate's residue
10. Dividing assets in practice: indivision and development
11. Bequest in favor of an heir: wasiya li-warith
12. The Muslim's succession in non-Muslim lands
13. The spouse's share: what do husband and wife inherit?
14. Entangled successions: when the heir dies before division
15. Distant relatives (dhawu al-arham): do they inherit?
16. The wasi: the estate executor
17. The deceased's accounts, insurances and digital assets
18. International successions: assets in several countries
19. The mother and ascendants: shares and rules
20. Renouncing inheritance and share transfer
21. Matrimonial regime and own assets: what enters the succession?
22. Dividing rural lands: musha' and homeland properties