Discover the meaning of the term Al-mnaskha (مناسخة) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readA reciprocal form of naskh, which is transfer and replacement; technically: the transfer of an heir's share, upon his death before division, to whoever inherits from him.
A reciprocal form of naskh, in language transfer and conversion. In the usage of the masters of inheritance: the transfer of one heir's share, before division, to whoever inherits from him.
In language: masdar of nasakha munasikha, like khasama mukhasama; plural: munasakhat; al-nasikh: agent form of al-naskh. Al-Jawhari said: tanasukh in inheritance: heirs dying after heirs, the root of the inheritance remaining undivided. It is said: from al-naskh, which is transfer, conversion, and replacement. In religious law, in Anis al-Fuqaha: tanasukh in inheritance: heirs dying after heirs, the root of the inheritance remaining undivided; so in the Sihah, and likewise in the Matla'. In the Ta'rifat: the transfer of one heir's share, by his death, before division, to whoever inherits from him. In the Rawd al-Murbi': the death of a second or more heirs of the first before his estate is divided (Anis al-Fuqaha, p. 304; al-Ta'rifat, p. 211; al-Matla', p. 304; al-Rawd al-Murbi', p. 364).
That heirs die after heirs, the inheritance remaining thereafter undivided.
A reciprocal form of naskh, which is transfer and replacement.
In the usage of the inheritance specialists: the transfer of one heir's share, before division, upon whoever inherits from him. Al-Nasafi said: 'munasakha is that a man die leaving property and heirs, and before it is divided among them some of them die; his share passes to another, and the two inheritances are divided by the portions of the survivors.'