Does the son inherit from his mother who killed his father, knowing about the crime and not preventing it? And does the murdering wife inherit?
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The general consensus among scholars is that a deliberate killer inherits nothing from the person he killed, based on the : "A killer does not inherit anything." This is also because allowing a killer to inherit would lead to an increase in killings. This ruling applies to anyone who committed the murder or assisted in it. Thus, a wife who killed her husband does not inherit from him. However, a son who did not participate in the killing is not deprived of his father's inheritance and also inherits from his mother, regardless of her being a killer.
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