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How is the inheritance distributed among four daughters, three full brothers, a wife, and a full sister, knowing that the deceased stipulated that his debts, including the installments for his wife's apartment, be paid before the division of the estate?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The debts of the deceased must be paid before the division of the inheritance, whether or not the deceased made a will to that effect, based on the Almighty's saying: "after any will has been fulfilled or any debt paid." However, if the wife is the debtor, and the deceased's will was to complete the payment of her debt, this is considered a bequest to an heir and is not valid unless the rest of the heirs consent. If the heirs are the wife, daughters, and brothers, the wife gets one-eighth, the daughters get two-thirds, and the remainder goes to the brothers by ta'sib (residuary heirship), with the male receiving the share of two females. The inheritance is divided into 168 shares.

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