{"id":25793,"date":"2022-07-11T20:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=25793"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:31:56","slug":"can-a-brother-express-leaving-his-inheritance-to-his-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/can-a-brother-express-leaving-his-inheritance-to-his-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Brother Express Leaving His Inheritance to His Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 06191<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Can my brother&#8217;s friend who says that my brother expressed leaving his Inheritance to my sister be followed or should we follow Sharia Law of Inheritance and distribute it between me and my sister as sharia law states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Quran mentions explicitly how inheritance should be distributed [Surah an-Nisa 4 Verse 11&amp;12]. Every Muslim should write a will expressing the fact that they would like their property to be distributed according to the Islamic Method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">One should not express or state in their will that they would like to leave their inheritance to some inheritors excluding the others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In your case, the money should be distributed amongst all the inheritors in accordance with Islamic Law. If all of the inheritors are happy with forfeiting their share of the inheritance and gifting it to your sister they are allowed to.<a href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#sdfootnote1anc\">1<\/a> \u0644\u0627 \u0648\u0635\u064a\u0629 \u0644\u0648\u0627\u0631\u062b \u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0628\u0625\u062c\u0627\u0632\u0629 \u0628\u0627\u0642\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0631\u062b\u0629 &#8211; \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628: \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u064a\u0637 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u0647\u0627\u0646\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0642\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0646\u064a \u0641\u0642\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0623\u0628\u064a \u062d\u0646\u064a\u0641\u0629 \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 &#8211; \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0634\u0631: \u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629\u060c \u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a &#8211; \u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646 &#8211; \u0645\u062c\u0644\u062f: 6 \u0635\u0641\u062d\u0629: 180<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 06191 &nbsp; Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji &nbsp; Question: Can my brother&#8217;s friend who says that my brother expressed leaving his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25838,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793\/revisions\/25838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}