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Category: Beneficiaries

Giving Zakaat To Siblings

Question Is it persmissible to give my Zakaat to my sister who is in financial difficulty? Answer After investigation, as […]

6 March 20266 March 2026Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Giving/Discharging Zakaat To Orphanages

Question An orphanage has in their care, orphans,  as well as other children whose parents have placed them under their […]

2 March 20262 March 2026Beneficiaries, Discharging, Zakaat

Preferred Order Of Recipients Of Zakaat

Question To whom is best to give Zakaat to? Answer The best recipients for your Zakaat are those needy family […]

27 February 202627 February 2026Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Eligibility To Receive Zakaat

Question There is one brother in our country. He does not have any debts but at the beginning of the […]

13 March 202513 March 2025Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Items Of Entertainment And Their Effect On The Eligibility To Receive Zakaat

Question Regarding the eligibility of a recipient for Zakaat, is a laptop considered as an item of necessity or not? Will […]

9 March 20256 March 2025Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Determining Rightful Recipients Of Zakaat

Question I would like to know how do I determine who the rightful recipients of zakaah are? Are recipients those […]

5 July 20245 July 2024Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Settling The Debts Of The Deceased With Zakaat Funds

Question We are 7 brothers and sisters – 2 brothers have passed away. One of my brothers passed away approx. […]

17 March 202414 March 2024Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Using Zakaat To Pay For Travel Expenses

Question An Imaam at the local Masjid only gives the azaan and performs salaah is in need of funds for […]

22 August 202322 August 2023Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Eligibility To Receive Zakaat

Question Are recipients those that do not have wealth, being cash and jewellery above zakah nisaab? Or do we also […]

6 June 20236 June 2023Beneficiaries, Zakaat

Giving Zakaah To A Non-Muslim

Question I have heard from the Ulama that  out of the people mentioned in the Quran who are rightful of […]

31 October 202231 October 2022Beneficiaries, Zakaat

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Full Cousin

Father's full brother's sons are eligible to inherit.

Father's full sister's sons are not eligible to inherit.

 

Full Uncle

Father’s full brothers are eligible to inherit.

Mothers’s full brothers are not eligible to inherit.

 

Full Nephew

Full Brother's sons are eligible to inherit.

Full Sister's sons are not eligible to inherit.

 

Great Grandfather

Father’s father’s fathers are eligible to inherit.

Father’s mother’s fathers and mother’s father’s fathers are not eligible to inherit.

 

Great Grandson

Son's son’s sons are eligible to inherit.

Son’s daughter’s sons and daughter's son’s sons are not eligible to inherit.

 

Great Granddaughter

Son's son’s daughters are eligible to inherit.

Son's daughter’s daughters and daughter's son’s daughters are not eligible to inherit.

 

Consanguine Sister

Sisters who share the same father but have different mothers.

 

Consanguine Brother

Brothers who share the same father but have different mothers.

 

Uterine Sister

Sisters who share the same mother but have different fathers.

 

Uterine Brother

Brothers who share the same mother but have different fathers.

 

Full Sister

Sisters who share the same father and the mother.

 

Full Brother

Brothers who share the same father and the mother.

 

Granddaughter

Son's daughters are eligible to inherit. Daughter's daughters are not eligible to inherit.

Granddaughters from adopted sons and step-sons are not eligible to inherit.

 

Grandson

Son's sons are eligible to inherit. Daughter's sons are not eligible to inherit.

Grandsons from adopted sons and step-sons are not eligible to inherit.

 

Grandmother

The grandmothers listed below are eligible to inherit:

  1. Father's mother.
  2. Paternal grandfather's mother.
  3. Paternal grandmother's mother.
  4. Mother's mother.
  5. Maternal grandmother’s mother.

 

Grandfather

Paternal grandfathers are eligible to inherit.

Maternal grandfathers are not eligible to inherit.

 

Father

A biological father alone is eligible to inherit, not a step-father.

An illegitimate father is not eligible to inherit from his illegitimate son.

Mother

The biological mother alone is eligible to inherit, not a step-mother.

Daughter(s)

Daughters of the deceased's living husbands/wives, deceased husbands/wives, or divorced wives are all eligible to inherit.

Adopted daughters and step-daughters are not eligible to inherit.

A daughter born out of wedlock is entitled to inherit from her deceased mother but not from her deceased father.

Son(s)

Sons of the deceased's living husband/wives, deceased husband/wives or divorced husband/wives are all eligible to inherit.

Adopted sons and step-sons are not eligible to inherit.

A son born out of wedlock is entitled to inherit from his deceased mother, but not from his deceased father.

Wife/Wives

All women who were in the Nikaah of a man at the time of his demise are eligible to inherit from their husband's estate, regardless of whether the Nikaah was consummated or not.

If a man passed away during the Iddah period of a wife who had been issued a Talaaq-e-Rajee (revocable divorce), the wife remains eligible to inherit from the deceased husband's estate. Conversely, if the husband passed away after the Iddah period had expired, the wife is not eligible to inherit from the deceased husband's estate.

If the husband issued a Talaaq-e-Baain (irrevocable divorce), or the divorce occurred via Khula (divorce initiated by the wife), the divorced wife is not eligible to inherit from the deceased husband's estate, regardless of whether the divorce was issued during her Iddah period or not.

Husband

A man is eligible to inherit from a woman who was in his Nikaah at the time of her demise, irrespective of whether the Nikaah was consummated or not.

A man does not inherit from his ex-wife.