Inheritance & Wills

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The killer does not inherit.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“A woman inherits from the blood money and wealth of her husband, and he inherits from her blood money and wealth, so long as one of them did not kill the other. If one of them killed the other deliberately,...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Allah and His Messenger are the guardians of the one who has no guardian, and the maternal uncle is the heir of one who has no other heir.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Whoever leaves behind wealth, it is for his heirs. Whoever leaves behind poor dependents and a debt, it is for us to take care of – or he said: ‘It is for Allah and His Messenger (to take care of)...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ruled that the sons from the same mother inherit from one another, but not sons from different mothers. A man inherits from his full brother from the same father and mother, but not his brothers...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Distribute wealth among those who are entitled to shares of inheritance, according to the Book of Allah, then whatever is left over goes to the nearest male relative.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“A man died at the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and he left no heir except for a slave whom he had set free. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave the legacy to him.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“A woman may get three types of inheritance: From her freed slave woman, a foundling whom she raised, and her child concerning whom she swore in Li’an that he was legitimate.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Then the Verse of Li’an was revealed, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Any woman who attributed her child to people to whom he does not belong, then she has no relation to (the religion of) Allah, and she will...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“It is disbelief for a man to attribute himself to someone other than his father knowingly, or to deny his connection to his father, even subtly.”*

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Whoever commits adultery with a slave woman or a free woman, his child is illegitimate, and he cannot inherit from him or be inherited from (i.e., this child cannot inherit from him).”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Every child who is attributed to his father after his father to whom he is attributed has died, and his heirs attributed him to him after he died, he ruled that* whoever was born to a slave woman whom he...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade selling the right of inheritance or giving it away.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade selling the right of inheritance, or giving it as a gift.

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“Whatever division of inheritance was made during the Ignorance period, stands according to the division of the Ignorance period, and whatever division of inheritance was made during Islam, it stands according to the division of Islam.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“If the child has cired, the (funeral) prayer should be offered for him (if he dies) and he is an heir.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“No child inherits until he raises his voice or cries.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Shares of Inheritance

“I heard Tamim Ad- Dari say: ‘I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the Sunnah concerning a man from among the People of the Book who becomes a Muslim at the hands of another man?’ He said: ‘He is...