No. A registry records that a will exists and where it is kept. Validity is a separate question, governed entirely by your province's formal requirements.
The Canadian position
A will is valid if it meets provincial requirements for writing, signature and witnessing. Registration adds nothing to that.
What registration does is solve the findability problem, which is a different and very real failure mode.
The Islamic position
The religious requirement is that the wasiyyah be documented and available. Registration serves that directly, without touching the question of legal form.
No school makes writing a will a duty in itself. The four are recorded as agreed that it is recommended, and obligatory only where a debt, a trust held for someone else, or an outstanding duty would otherwise be lost. That answer assumes the fixed shares apply by themselves — which they do not in Canada, where an estate left without a will is divided by provincial statute instead, and where AMJA has resolved that a Muslim living in the West must make a bequest.
All four Sunni schools researched and sourced. Reviewed 2026-09-01. Full positions, evidence and sources — Is a Muslim obliged to write a will?.
This is legal information only. For advice on your own circumstances, speak to a lawyer.
Citations & sources
Every factual claim on this page traces to a source below. Details change — check the original source before relying on any figure, fee or legal position. Anything under “further reading” is related material, not a source for what is stated here.
- Wills Registry — Province of British Columbia
- Search the registers of wills and mandates — Chambre des notaires du Québec
- Locating wills and documents — Law Society of Ontario
- Ontario valid will legal requirements — Treadstone Law
- Ontario will valid execution requirements — Treadstone Law
- Witnessing requirements beneficiary designation forms ontario — Treadstone Law
- Improperly executed will ontario formal validity — Treadstone Law
- Wills & estates practice — Treadstone Law