Benefiting the Deceased
476 questions
Why was it said about Sad ibn Muadh: "If anyone were to escape the compression of the grave, Sad ibn Muadh would have escaped it"?
What is the ruling on announcing a death by hanging advertisements in public places, and what is the ruling on attaching the deceased's picture to this advertisement?
How can one cope with the death of a husband and the depression resulting from his loss, and how can a woman be forgiven by her deceased husband for taking money without his knowledge?
How is inheritance distributed among the wife, two daughters, father, mother, brothers, and a sister after the death of a man?
Is not autopsying a body to determine the cause of death considered a violation of the deceased's sanctity?
What is the legitimate share of the children from their grandfather’s land after their father’s death, and are they entitled to claim the remnants of their right to cultivation (mugharasa) or the price of the trees they planted in their two paternal aunts' share, after more than twenty years of benefiting from the land without giving the two aunts any of its produce?
Is it permissible for Muslims to donate their eyes after death?
What is the ruling on transporting a deceased person from non-Muslim lands in a coffin and then burying them according to Islamic law, or burying them in the coffin itself, and what is the ruling on selling the coffin and what happens to the money generated from its sale?
How is an inheritance divided between a son and seven married daughters upon the father's death, taking into consideration that the son works with his father in his shop, which is his sole source of livelihood?
Are the brothers entitled to demand partnership in commercial shops that their brother established with his own effort and money, financed by a loan from their deceased father's shops, given that he has repaid a large portion of this loan?
Is placing a small child with the deceased or smelling the scent of musk after death considered among the signs of a good ending?
Does a wife who married after the death of her first husband benefit from his pension, given that he died during the November 1954 revolution, leaving her children, and having worked for a French institution?
Do the paternal uncles and aunts of the deceased inherit from the estate of their deceased nephew if their father (the father of the deceased's father) died before the distribution of the estate?
Do the deceased brother's children inherit - after the father's death - from their deceased father's share of their grandfather's inheritance?
Is it permissible for the younger brother to retract his waiver of his share of the inheritance to his deceased brother and claim it for his heirs, due to the failure to complete the legal procedures for the waiver?
Is it true that not dividing the inheritance during the father's lifetime nullifies the right of his heirs to it? And what is the ruling on the governmental (miri) division in Islam?
Does a son who died before his father—and whose wife is pregnant—inherit from his deceased father?
Is it permissible to abandon the building of a mosque that was vowed to be built on land inherited by minor children, in the event of insufficient funds for that purpose and the need of some heirs for their share, and is it permissible for the mother who vowed a large part of her share for the mosque to retract her vow?
How is the estate of a woman who died leaving a husband, two daughters, and a brother distributed, and what is the share of each heir if her husband died before her?
What is the ruling on a document written by a grandfather to وقف (endow) his property for his two grandsons, to the exclusion of their deceased father and their paternal aunt, and on the condition that it be for males only among their descendants?
Is it necessary to disburse one-third of the rental income from real estate, accrued after death, and include it within the bequeathed one-third, or does all the rent belong to the heirs, given that the properties have passed to them?
Must the father offer a legal expiation after the death of his sick daughter, whom he was treating with some herbs, following the accidental administration of a large quantity of it at once, which led to her death, knowing that she was not legally accountable? And will the reward for the righteous deeds performed by the father reach her?
Is the seller's demand to own part of the land he sold to my father in 1963, and his claim that the remainder is a trust for others, after he divided the alleged trust in 1982, considered valid, especially after my father's death?
Is it permissible to withdraw from organ donation after signing the donation document to please one's parents? And is the donor sinful if his organs are transplanted into a non-believer or if a man dissects his body?