{"id":227,"date":"2020-03-26T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shariawiz.com\/halaqa\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:54:28","slug":"my-only-surviving-islamic-heir-is-my-spouse-would-my-spouse-take-the-entire-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shariawiz.com\/halaqa\/2020\/03\/26\/my-only-surviving-islamic-heir-is-my-spouse-would-my-spouse-take-the-entire-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"My only surviving Islamic heir is my spouse; would my spouse take the entire estate? | Islamic Estate Planning Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shariawiz: What Is The Islamic Law Of Inheritance?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LdZYAST3H7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes. A surviving spouse would take her prescribed share from the estate. A wife\u2019s Islamic inheritance share would be 1\/4 (or 1\/8 if the husband had children) of her husband&#8217;s net estate. A husband\u2019s Islamic inheritance share would be 1\/2 (or 1\/4 if the wife had children) of his wife&#8217;s net estate. The balance left in the estate would go to the decedent\u2019s surviving Islamic heirs like parents, children or siblings.<\/p>\n<p>What happens if there are no other surviving Islamic heirs?<\/p>\n<p>Except for Uthman Ibn Afan, who held that a spouse is entitled to share in\u00a0<em>radd<\/em>\u00a0like the other obligatory Islamic heir takers, the Sh\u0101fi\u2019\u012b, \u1e24anaf\u012b, \u1e24anbal\u012b School and M\u0101lik\u012b Schools hold that while spouses are obligatory heirs (<em>ahl al-fara\u2019id<\/em>), they are not entitled to\u00a0<em>radd<\/em>. The majority of Muslim countries, including Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Jordan today provide that while they do not permit a spouse to take\u00a0<em>radd<\/em>\u00a0if there are any other surviving Islamic heirs, they do permit a spouse to take\u00a0<em>radd<\/em>\u00a0if there are no other surviving Islamic heirs. So if the sole surviving Islamic heir is a spouse, the spouse would take his or her Quranic share plus the balance remaining in the estate by\u00a0<em>radd<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn if your spouse takes the entire estate if he or she is the only surviving Islamic heir for Muslim Americans.  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