How is an inheritance divided when there are four full brothers, two maternal half-brothers, two full sisters, and five paternal half-sisters, and the deceased has debts?
Before dividing the inheritance, the debts of the deceased must be paid. If the heirs of the deceased are limited to those mentioned, then his maternal siblings receive one-third of the inheritance as a prescribed share due to their plurality and the absence of any ascendants or descendants of the deceased. What remains after the maternal siblings' prescribed share is for the full siblings (brothers and sisters) by way of ta'sib (residuary heirship); it is divided among them such that the male receives the share of two females. The paternal sisters receive nothing; they are completely excluded from inheritance by the full siblings. The base number for the inheritance is three, but it can be adjusted to thirty; thus, the wealth is divided into thirty shares. The maternal siblings receive one-third of it (ten shares), with each of them taking five shares. Twenty shares remain, which is the portion of the full siblings; each male among them takes four shares, and each female takes two shares.
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