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Who are the fixed-share heirs in Islamic inheritance?

Spouses, parents, daughters, and certain siblings and grandparents. They take stated fractions before anything passes to residuary heirs.

Draft — pending review. This page has been prepared but has not yet been reviewed by a Canadian estates lawyer or a qualified scholar. Treat it as a starting point for questions, not as advice you should act on.

Spouses, parents, daughters, and certain siblings and grandparents. They take stated fractions before anything passes to residuary heirs.

The Canadian position

Canadian intestacy has no equivalent category — it distributes by degrees of kinship, not by fixed fractions.

That structural difference is why an intestate estate almost never matches faraid even by accident.

The Islamic position

The ashab al-furud take defined fractions drawn from Surah an-Nisa. Who qualifies depends on who else survives.

Exclusion rules mean a surviving son can remove several people from the calculation entirely.

Across the madhahib

The four Sunni schools are not recorded as differing materially on this point in the sources reviewed. Where your own case turns on it, put it to a scholar of your school.

Before you act on this

General information, not legal or religious advice. Inheritance depends entirely on the exact family circumstances. Confirm the Canadian position with a lawyer in your province and any religious ruling with a qualified scholar.

Citations & sources

Every factual claim on this page traces to one of the references below. Legislation and dollar thresholds change — verify against the primary source before relying on any figure.

Islamic primary sources
  1. Surah an-Nisa 4:11 — shares of children and parents — Quran.com
  2. Surah an-Nisa 4:12 — shares of spouses and uterine siblings — Quran.com
  3. Surah an-Nisa 4:176 — the kalalah verse — Quran.com
  4. Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 85: Laws of Inheritance (Faraid) — Sunnah.com
  5. Sahih Muslim, Book of Inheritance — Sunnah.com
Scholarly & institutional references
  1. Research Papers — Cambridge Muslim College
  2. Research — Cambridge Muslim College
  3. Academics — Islamic law and theology curriculum — Zaytuna College
  4. Encyclopaedia of Islam — Brill
Canadian legislation & government
  1. Succession Law Reform Act, RSO 1990, c S.26 — Government of Ontario
  2. Administering estates — Government of Ontario
Canadian legal commentary
  1. Half siblings intestacy ontario — Treadstone Law
  2. Body disposition dispute no will instructions ontario — Treadstone Law
  3. Co ownership death no will ontario — Treadstone Law
  4. What is dependent support claim intestacy ontario — Treadstone Law
  5. How does intestacy treat common law children — Treadstone Law
  6. Minor children inheritance intestacy ontario — Treadstone Law
  7. Wills & estates practice — Treadstone Law