Back to search

What is the justification for giving a girl one dirham out of the 600 dirhams left by her deceased father, while she has 12 brothers?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

The issue mentioned in the question is incorrect. The least a girl can receive with her brothers is twenty-four dirhams. The correct understanding is that the questioner perhaps intended the case of Ali ibn Abi Talib, in which a woman came to him saying she only received one dinar from her brother's inheritance of five hundred dinars. Ali replied that her brother might have left behind a wife, two daughters, a mother, twelve brothers, and you, and the woman confirmed it. In this case, the wife's share is one-eighth (75 dinars), the two daughters' share is two-thirds (400 dinars), the mother's share is one-sixth (100 dinars), and the remaining (25 dinars) is distributed among the male siblings and the sister, with each male receiving two dinars and the sister receiving one dinar.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy