Inheritance

Q: Mufti it's been many years my dad has been asking his elder brothers for his haq from my grandfather. Since 1956 he has been trying. My dad is late now seven years but like a year before he passed away he asked me to pursue this long overdue matter. Mum is alive still and 86 years old. Not too well. Am I doing the right thing to be asking for my dads haq or is it wrong for me to ask for our haq. Please help me because many have told me it's the right thing to do and many have said for me to let the people who are still eating of our haq carry on because they will pay for it in the year after. What is the verdict on this matter. Please help me.

Q: My sister died in 2004 and she had £365000 in her account cash and interest accumulated to £40000 making a grand total of £405,000.00. This had been divided amongst 17 members of family without paying Zakaat since 2004. She died in 2006 what is your opinion?

Q: A lady has just been told that her deceased husband had told some people who were collecting donations for a school in India that he would give them five hundred British pounds as lillah, but he passed away very suddenly, without paying out the money. Now those people are asking the deceased man's family to pay them. Does the man's family have to give that money? Will they be committing a sin if they don't? Will the deceased man suffer in the after life if the lillah is not paid? Please bear in mind that all debts of the man has been paid from the money which he left, but is the fact that he said he will give lillah, but died before he was able to, be considered as a debt?

Q: I got confused by a Christian missionary about the so-called mathematical mistakes in inheritance explained in Quran. Since I am not an aalim, I need your help to clarify this confusion. I have firm faith that there is no such mistake in the Quran; it's my fault not to have complete knowledge about it. One example he gave is stated below:

Wife 1/8 = 3/24

Daughters 2/3 = 16/24

Father 1/6 = 4/24

Mother 1/6 = 4/24

Total = 27/24

Please help me out in this matter.

Q: Zaid passed away on 15 October 2014. He used to pay his staff's monthly salaries to the value of 100k on the 30th of every month. Will a liability
for half a months salary ie 50k be deducted from his net assets when calculating his estate?

Q: My father passed away last year and left a verbal will of how his estate shall be distributed amongst his children. The family are all aware of this as it was said to all of them. We are now in an unislamic court over the matter since one of them is just being plain greedy. Please advise.

Q: What should I do with inherited insurance money? My brother in-law has a big debt. Can I give it to him if I have to give it away?

Q: My two brothers are A and B.  A had property that was given to him by my father and he gave away to B. Verbally and all the family knew it.  B never changed the papers on his name. But  benefited from that property. B passed away leaving a widow 2 sons 3 daughters. The property is still in A s name on paper. There is no will of B.  How should this be divided. A has 3 sons and a daughter and wife. They all want this property. And we both sisters of A and B are also surviving.  So please advise.

Q: At the time of the distribution (2004) of the assets of the deceased, the wife of the deceased wished to "take" a diamond belonging to the deceased by offering to pay the other heirs the market value of the diamond. The other heirs agreed, however the value was not known to the heirs. A few years later (2014) the widow wishes to pay the the heirs for that diamond.

a) Was the "taking" of the diamond by the widow at the date of distribution (2004) considered a valid sale to the heirs, considering the value was not known to the widow or the rest of the heirs at that stage ?

b)Which market value should she now pay the heirs on i.e. 2004 or 2014 if applicable?