Benefiting the Deceased
538 questions
How do we reconcile the permissibility of dedicating the reward of good deeds to the deceased with Allah Almighty's saying: "Whoever does righteousness, it is for his [own] soul" and "If you do good, you do good for yourselves"? And do these verses mean that a person's reward is only for himself and cannot be dedicated to others?
What is the ruling regarding a man who marries his deceased wife's sister's daughter?
Is what the deceased brother left for his mother considered a gift, knowing that he deposited the amount into her account during his lifetime and allowed her to dispose of it when needed?
How is the remaining house to be divided, and what is the inheritance of each heir, given the situation regarding the furniture and contents of the house sold to his daughter, and that the deceased's heirs are: (a wife, a daughter, and a paternal half-brother)?
Does a brother inherit from his slain brother when their father was alive at the time of his killing, and the slain brother had a wife and a daughter?
How is the inheritance to be divided among four paternal brothers (one of whom has been missing for 40 years) and a daughter, given that the sons of one of the deceased brothers seized a property from the estate without proof?
Should a son who manages his widowed mother's money distribute it equally among his siblings, and do they have the right to demand that?
How is inheritance distributed among the deceased's heirs: a wife, two daughters, and two sons, with a will stating that a sum of money be given to his disabled brother for the purpose of his marriage?
How is a sum of money that came to the deceased as a gift after his death divided? Is it divided among the heirs according to the Sharia inheritance law, or is it distributed equally among the children?
Does the deceased son inherit after his father's will to divide the inheritance while the latter is still alive?
How are the mother's properties and the father's inheritance divided after his death, especially concerning a deceased son and the inheritance of his grandchildren?
What is the ruling on benefiting from land upon which a pen/enclosure (ḥawsh) has been erected, and it is said that there are old graves within it whose occupants are unknown, as is their exact location, and what should be done if traces of these graves are found?
Is it obligatory to change the name on the phone and electricity bills from that of the deceased father, or can they be left as they are with continued payment?
Does the creditor have the right to claim from the heirs of the guarantor or the heirs of the debtor if the guarantor and the debtor both died in an accident?
What is the ruling on inheriting the Mus'haf and what are the sayings of the scholars regarding it?
How is the estate of a man to be divided who died leaving a mother, two sons, and two daughters, knowing that one of the sons built an additional floor on the house left by the father before his death, then he himself died, and after the death of the father and the first son, the second son converted the ground-floor shops into an apartment and finished the upper floor that his deceased brother had built?
Is distributing parts of the Qur’an to mourners for them to read collectively with the intention of benefiting the deceased, and repeating this annually, considered an innovation (bid‘ah)?
Will the deceased brother be held accountable if his sister watches the anime he gave her before his death?
Who is responsible for the financial support of the children, the wife, and the husband's mother after the husband's death, and are they the 'Asabat (agnatic heirs) in order of precedence, and what is the evidence for that?
How can a worshiper supplicate for all deceased Muslims to receive mercy with certainty of a response, despite the hadiths indicating the existence of 72 sects in Hellfire from the Prophet's ﷺ nation?
Is it permissible, in Sharia, for a doctor to insert a breathing tube into a dead person whose return to life is not hoped for, for the purpose of training?
Is the eldest sister obligated to execute the deceased mother's will to send "gifts" to the sisters from money the mother secretly saved from household expenses before her death?
What is the ruling on the utensils, dishes, and furniture bought by the husband: are they inherited after his death, or do they belong to the wife and children and are not inherited?
Does a deceased wife inherit after the distribution of the inheritance, knowing that she has sons and daughters, and that the deceased had an annual hotel rental from which each wife's share was 5,000 Riyals?