Can the Family Claim a Deceased Person's Bequest?
An Islamic bequest (wasiyyah) is only valid if the beneficiaries are still alive at the time of the testator's death; the share of a deceased beneficiary lapses and does not pass to their family.
If one of the beneficiaries of the bequest is not alive at the time of death, then the bequest made in their name is null and void, and their family is not entitled to receive it either.
The text deals with the Islamic legal question of whether the families of deceased beneficiaries of a bequest (wasiyyah) can inherit their share. It begins with a hadith that warns against harming heirs through unjust testamentary dispositions. The central answer is: a wasiyyah is only valid if the beneficiaries are still alive at the time of the testator's death. If a beneficiary has already died, their share is void and does not pass to their family. The surviving beneficiaries receive their allocated shares. The text refers to the Hanafi school of law and cites the source Lubaab. At the end, a free consultation service of the Jamiatul Ulama KZN for Islamic wills is advertised.
Worldview
what this means- What, according to this text, is the root of the evil?
- Exploitation, oppression, unequal conditions
- Where does the evil reside?
- in the heart, the will, or the soul of the individual
- What helps against it?
- keeping the commandments, maintaining order, fulfiling one's duties; insight, learning, enlightenment, right understanding
- What is human being according to this text?
- willed by God, with a task and a responsibility
- Where is history heading?
- the message stands outside of history
- What does the text base its claim on?
- on the founder or prophet of the tradition; on tradition, the fathers, an established practice
- To whom does the text's call for devotion apply?
- to one's own fellow believers
- Where is the text's criticism directed?
- at one's own community and at oneself
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What the text calls for
- sich in seinem Leben mit Testament und Erbschaft befassen (interpersonal)
- einen Termin für testamentarische Beratung vereinbaren (social)
Passages cited
Sunan Tirmidhi
Measured
- Basic stance
- 0 from -2 to 2
- Insistence
- 1 of 3
- Reach
- 2 of 5
- Concreteness
- 3 of 3
- Boundary
- 0 of 3
- Time
- past 2, present 2, future 1