The Book of Bequests and Inheritances and What is Connected Therewith

Question: A madman has four sisters, a mother, a paternal uncle, and cousins. This madman has been missing for more than seventy-five years, and on the day he disappeared he was more than fifteen years old. No news of him...

Question: If a person falls ill with an illness that takes away his reason – such as a stroke – or goes into complete madness, how should his estate be handled? What is permissible for the heirs in terms of...

Question: A question came to me about a family composed of a man, his wife, his sons, their wives, and the sons’ children who were young – all of them died together from a large bomb dropped by an airplane...

Question: And does this woman have the right to dedicate some of her wealth as a waqf for a mosque or some public benefit, placing the authority over that under her husband and in his hand? And does her cousin...

Question: A woman died leaving a husband and a son of her paternal aunt, and no one else. How is the inheritance to be divided?

Question: A man has partners in an estate who are orphans. He undertakes to grow and manage the wealth, and substantial income is obtained for him and for his orphan brothers through that. Is it permissible for him to lend...

Question: A woman bequeathed a Hajj from her inheritance, and this inheritance is from an estate entailed (waqf) upon the descendants which is neither to be sold nor given away. Another man from the people of this entailed estate sold...

Question: A man has a sister, and she has an inheritance with him. He wishes to rid himself of that inheritance. Whenever he asks her to come for the division, or asks her to appoint an agent, she absolutely refuses,...

Question: A man deliberately killed his relative, and the killer is the closest ʿaṣabah (agnate heir) of the murdered person. At the time he killed him, his (the killer’s) wife was pregnant with a child. Who receives the ʿaṣabah [share]?

Question: A man inherited wealth from his father, and his father had been chaste, scrupulous regarding people’s wealth, and religiously committed. Then, after twenty-five years, a man came to that heir and said to him: “Such-and-such an item was not...