What is the Sharia ruling regarding the salary of the deceased woman and her jewelry, given the father's custody of his children, the demand of the deceased wife's two brothers for their sister's salary and jewelry, the inability of the children's grandmother to support them, and the father's unreliability in raising his children in their maternal uncles' home?
The salary mentioned is either a grant from the state to the heirs of the deceased wife, and its ruling is determined by what the state specifies because it is not an inheritance. If the state allocates it to her children, then it belongs to them. Or it could be part of her salary, called a pension, and this is divided among her heirs according to the legal inheritance division. In both cases, the wife's siblings do not have the right to claim her salary. As for the jewelry and other properties she left behind, they are divided among her heirs according to legal inheritance. If she passed away leaving a husband, two sons, a father, and a mother, then the husband gets one-fourth, each of the parents gets one-sixth, and the remainder goes to the two sons. As for custody when the mother is absent, it goes to her mother according to the majority of scholars, and this is decided by the Sharia court. It must be noted that matters of inheritance are very serious and cannot be settled by a mere fatwa; rather, they must be referred to the Sharia courts for investigation and consideration.
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