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Does the verse of kalalah apply to a deceased woman who is a widow with no children, whose parents have passed away, and who has sons and daughters of two full sisters, and a son and three daughters of a half-brother from the father, and who has no paternal uncles or sons of paternal uncles, and how is the inheritance distributed?

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The method of distributing inheritance cannot be determined until all heirs have been fully identified. The daughters and sons of the sister are not heirs at all, nor are the daughters of the brother. If the deceased left no one but her paternal brother and her two full sisters, then the two sisters receive two-thirds as a prescribed share, and the remainder goes to the paternal brother by residuary right, provided they were alive at the time of her death. "Kalalah" refers to a person who dies leaving neither a child nor a parent, as stated in the verse: "They ask you for a ruling. Say, 'Allah gives you a ruling concerning the kalalah (those who leave no direct heirs). If a man dies, and he has no child but has a sister...'"

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