Is the estate of a deceased person who died without an heir (kalalah) – and who had a full sister and a maternal half-sister who both died before him, leaving children – to be distributed such that half goes to the children of the full sister and one-sixth to the children of the maternal half-sister, with the remainder returned to the children in a two-thirds to one-third ratio?
The method of inheritance division cannot be clarified except after an unambiguous enumeration of the heirs, using the dedicated link provided for that purpose. If it is assumed that the deceased left behind only the children of a full sister and the children of a maternal sister, then the children of the full sister inherit one-half of the estate, and the children of the maternal sister inherit one-sixth of the estate, dividing it equally among themselves. By ردّ (return), the estate is divided into four shares: three for the children of the full sister and one for the children of the maternal sister, because the ذوو الأرحام (relatives by kinship) are given the remainder of the estate in proportion to their shares.
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