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Farā’iḍ calculator

Who inherits what, school by school: choose your school and say who survives the deceased. Each line says which book it comes from.

Children and a son’s children

SonDaughterSon’s sonSon’s daughter

Brothers and sisters

Full brotherFull sisterBrother by the fatherSister by the fatherBrother by the motherSister by the mother

Nephews, uncles and their sons

Full brother’s sonSon of a brother by the fatherFather’s full brotherFather’s brother by the fatherSon of the father’s full brotherSon of the father’s brother by the father

What is to be divided, if you want it in moneyWhat remains after the funeral, the debts, and bequests of up to a third, which all four books put first.

Say who survives the deceased to see the shares.

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The book

Al Sirájiyyah; or, the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance

Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sajāwandī, translated by Sir William Jones (1792), with notes by Almaric Rumsey (1869)

Public domain by age.

Scholarly review: pending

These rules were read out of the book by AI, and no scholar has checked this tool. Ask a scholar before acting on it, and ask what the law of your country says.

This tool does not work out distant kindred among themselves, an heir unborn or missing, people who die together, or a freed person’s patron. These books also bar some people from inheriting, such as someone who killed the deceased or who is of another religion, on terms that differ: ask a scholar.

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