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Islamic inheritance calculator
Answer a few questions about the deceased’s family: the tool shows who inherits, each share as a fraction, a percentage and an amount, with the verse or hadith it rests on.
The most common situations
Each example is solved step by step, with the verses.
- Wife, son and daughter
- Wife, 3 daughters and a brother
- Wife and daughters, no other heir
- Husband, son and daughter
- Three daughters, no other heir
- One son and two daughters
- Woman without children: husband, mother and brothers
- Father and mother only
- Man without children: wife, brothers and sisters
- Grandfather and three brothers
How it works
Describe the family
The deceased, then only the relatives who can count: the assistant skips useless questions.
See who inherits
Shares as fractions, percentages and amounts, family tree, excluded heirs and why.
Understand each share
The verse or hadith behind it, the step-by-step calculation and the view of the four schools.
Everything about inheritance in Islam
- Who inherits?The heirs and their shares: spouses, children, parents, brothers and sisters…
- The rulesWhat comes before the division, fixed shares, ‘asaba, exclusion, ‘awl and radd.
- Famous cases‘Umariyyatan, Mushtaraka, Akdariyya, grandfather and brothers, unborn child…
- Schools and lawsWhere the four schools differ, and the laws of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt…
- National lawsMorocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UK… what the laws change.
- The willThe one-third limit, no bequest to an heir, witnesses, and a will template to prepare.
- Verses and hadithsAn-Nisa 11, 12 and 176: text, translation, explanation and recitation; the hadiths.
- QuestionsThe woman’s share, wills, gifts, non-Muslims, adopted children…
- Solved examplesAbout fifty family situations solved step by step.
- GlossaryFard, ‘asaba, hajb, ‘awl, radd, kalala… the words of inheritance.