Faraid estimator
Anggaran faraid
Estimate Islamic inheritance shares (Shafi'i) — for understanding only.
For understanding only. Shares follow the standard Shafi'i rules applied in Malaysia, but state laws and the facts of each family differ. The binding distribution is the faraid certificate or order of the Syariah court, or the decision in the small-estates or Amanah Raya process — confirm with the Mahkamah Syariah, Amanah Raya or a peguam syarie. No fatwa or ruling is given here.
How the estimator works
- Fixed shares (furud) — the halves, quarters, eighths, two-thirds, thirds and sixths set out in the Qur'an, al-Nisa' 4:11, 4:12 and 4:176.
- Residue ('asabah) — what is left goes to the nearest male relatives in order (son, son's son, father, grandfather, brothers, nephews, uncles, cousins); a daughter with a son, or a sister with a brother, takes half a male's share.
- 'Awl — if the fixed shares add up to more than the whole, each is reduced proportionally.
- No residuary heir — the classical Shafi'i position is that the remainder goes to Baitulmal (see the official note by Baitulmal Sabah ↗, citing Raudah al-Talibin and the Small Estates (Distribution) Act 1955, s 13(1) proviso). Radd — returning it to the heirs other than a spouse — is shown only as an option.
- Not calculated: a paternal grandfather with full or same-father siblings, distant relatives (dhawil arham), missing persons, unborn children, and successive deaths (munasakhat — see JKSM practice direction No. 14 of 2021). These must go to the Syariah court.
- Checked against 20 textbook cases, including 'awl, umariyyatayn, musharraka and radd.
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