Fatwa ID: 04233

Answered by: Maulana Imran Mughal

Question

Assalamualaikum.  If a person refuses to accept inheritance due to him because he believed it was distributed unfairly and not according to Shariah. The amount was kept as a trust, but he consistently refused to accept it. Then he passed away. What has to be done with the money? Was it to be counted as part of an inheritance or not? Jazakumullahu Khair.

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

It is of utmost importance that the wealth in the first place should have been distributed according to Shariah. Allah has placed these rules and regulations for our benefit. There are certain pearls of wisdom that only Allah truly knows behind how much who gets.

A person cannot reject inheritance, that money is his right whether he accepts it or not. Now unless he gifted it to someone else or alternatively discarded of it in any other way, that wealth should be distributed amongst his inheritors at the time of his death.

Only Allah knows best

Written by Maulana Imran Mughal

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

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