Inheritance of a Mother, Husband, and Daughters

28-8-2019 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalaamu ?Alaykum; Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information
-Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit:
(A full brother) Number 2
(A husband)
-Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit :
(A mother (of the deceased))
(A daughter) Number 6

Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

If the deceased wife did not leave any heirs other than those mentioned in the question, then her mother gets one-sixth as her legal share due to the existence of direct heirs (children) and sisters, as Allah Says (what means): {And for one’s parents, to each one of them is a sixth of his estate if he left children.} [Quran 4:11]

Her husband gets one-fourth as his legal share due to the existence of the children (direct heirs); Allah Says (what means): {But if they have a child, for you is one fourth of what they leave, after any bequest they [may have] made or debt.} [Quran 4:12]

Her daughters get two-thirds as their legal share as Allah Says about the existence of a number of daughters (what means): {But if there are [only] daughters, two or more, for them is two thirds of one’s estate.} [Quran 4:11]

However, the two full-brothers do not get anything from the inheritance because they do not have a specific share in the inheritance and they only inherit what remains after the share of the heirs [who have specific shares]. But in this present case, there is nothing left for them from the inheritance.

To sum it up, the inheritance should be divided into 39 shares; the mother of the deceased gets 6 shares; her husband gets 9 shares, and her daughters get 24 shares, each daughter gets 4 shares.

Allah knows best.

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