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Inheritance

ميراث

ميراث

Mīrāth

Definition

Islamic inheritance — a fixed distribution of the estate to legal heirs, mostly detailed in Sūrat an-Nisāʾ.

Example

Farāʾiḍ are divinely fixed shares; ʿaṣabah are the residual heirs who take what remains after the fixed shares.

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