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Are the deceased's brothers entitled to a share of the financial compensation resulting from his death in the accident, and what is the share of each of them? And if his children cannot be enabled to receive their rights, what should be done with their share?

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It is not permissible to challenge the lineage of a man's children if he acknowledges their lineage to him, even if the marriage to their mother was unlawful. How much more so when he divorced her before his death? If a man claims an unknown foundling and attributes him to himself, and no one disputes him, the foundling is legally attributed to him and inherits from him. This compensation is equivalent to blood money (Diyya); it is divided among the heirs according to the Sharia division. The man's estate, along with the compensation, is to be divided among all his male and female children from his three wives, with the male receiving the share of two females. If you know nothing about his daughters from the first wife, you can inform the French government to search for them. As for the brothers, they receive nothing from the compensation or the inheritance due to the presence of a son of the deceased.

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