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- Era
- The Prophetic Era
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- Global / Diaspora
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Overview
Muhammad al-Bahi sees the Islamic law of inheritance as built to disperse inherited wealth, not preserve it: the fixed fractional shares — half, third, quarter, sixth — prevent hoarding and set the heirs to work rather than living off the estate 1 2. He contrasts the European system that kept title and fortune with a single son — nearer, he says, to immortalizing the person 3. On bequests: "no bequest to an heir" keeps wealth from escaping dispersal; a will stops at a third; and leaving heirs rich is better than leaving them a burden.
Connections
- Has part
- Awl (proportional reduction of shares in inheritance)
- Part of
- Wealth in Islam
People and things also explored
Economy and balance in the Qur'an· Awl (proportional reduction of shares in inheritance)· Taxation in Islam· Zakat (alms tax)· Wealth in Islam· Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm
Sources
- Islam, God's Fitra — Muhammad al-Bahi , p. 135
- Islam, God's Fitra — Muhammad al-Bahi , p. 136
- Islam, God's Fitra — Muhammad al-Bahi , p. 137
- The Qur'anic Method in Economics — Ziyadan Abd al-Fattah Qa'dat
- Principles of Islamic Economics — Rafiq Yunus al-Misri
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islam.museum contributors. “Islamic inheritance system”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/inheritance-system/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.