Enter the heirs who are alive at the moment of death. This works out the fixed shares
(farāʾiḍ) and residue (ʿaṣabah), including ḥajb (blocking),
ʿAwl, Radd and the ʿUmariyyatān — on the Ḥanafī view by default,
with a Jumhūr (majority) option below.
Who counts as an heir — conditions & common misunderstandings
All heirs must be Muslim. Difference of religion is a bar: a non-Muslim does not inherit from a Muslim, nor a Muslim from a non-Muslim. Enter only Muslim relatives.
Adopted children and adopted siblings do not inherit. Adoption does not create a blood tie in the Sharīʿah. An adopted child can instead be provided for through the 1/3 bequest (waṣiyyah) or lifetime gifts.
Step-relatives and in-laws do not inherit (step-children, step-parents, a son- or daughter-in-law). They too can be remembered in the 1/3.
The heir must be alive at the moment of death. An unborn child inherits if later born alive; a share is held back for it in the meantime.
Relatives who die together — in the same crash or disaster, with the order of death unknown — do not inherit from one another; a share can pass only to an heir certain to have been alive at the moment of death. Work out each estate separately, leaving the co-deceased out. (English law presumes the reverse under s.184 Law of Property Act 1925 — the younger is deemed to survive the elder — which is why an Islamic will should include a survivorship clause.)
Someone who unlawfully caused the death of the deceased is barred from inheriting from them.
A child born outside marriage (or of liʿān) inherits from and through the mother’s side only, not the father.
Foster relationships from breastfeeding (raḍāʿah) affect marriage, not inheritance.
Position
The Ḥanafī view: the grandfather blocks the siblings, and in the “donkey” case the full brothers take nothing. The Jumhūr view (Mālik, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad) lets the grandfather share with siblings and applies the Mushtaraka. A few intricate grandfather sub-cases are flagged for a scholar.
£
The net estate is what remains after debts, funeral costs, and any bequest (waṣiyyah). Leave blank for fractions only.
Guidance, not a fatwā or legal advice. This tool covers the common heirs and the main Ḥanafī
rules. Unusual estates — no eligible heir, distant kindred (dhawil arḥām), a missing person, an
unborn child, a non-Muslim heir, or deaths in close succession — need a qualified scholar. For the will
itself, always pair a scholar’s certification with a solicitor’s drafting so the document
is both Sharīʿah-sound and valid under the law of England & Wales.