This is legal information only. For advice on your own circumstances, speak to a lawyer.
The fastest way to understand how faraid actually works is to see it applied. Each case below takes a real family configuration and a real estate value, computes the Qur’anic shares, and sets the result beside what the province would have done instead.
Scenarios
- My husband died. We have two sons and a daughter, and his mother is alive. — $600,000 estate
- My wife died. We have no children. Both her parents are alive. — $400,000 estate
- My father died leaving my mother, me, and my three sisters. — $500,000 estate
- My son died before me. He left a wife and two daughters, and I am still alive. — $350,000 estate
- My brother died unmarried with no children. Our parents have passed away. — $250,000 estate
- My husband died and I am his only heir — no children, no parents, no siblings. — $200,000 estate
- My father died leaving only me, his daughter. — $300,000 estate
- My husband died leaving me, our two daughters, and his father. — $480,000 estate
- My mother died leaving my father, me, and my brother. — $450,000 estate
- My wife died leaving me, our son, and both her parents. — $700,000 estate
- My husband died. I am pregnant, and we have one young son. — $400,000 estate
- My father died, and my brother died a month later before anything was distributed. — $550,000 estate
- My husband died and left an unpaid mahr of $20,000. — $320,000 estate
- My father died with a $300,000 RRSP naming only my brother, and $200,000 in the estate. — $200,000 estate
- My parents' home was in joint names. My father died first. — $150,000 estate
- My husband died in British Columbia. We have one son and three daughters. — $900,000 estate
- My father died. He had converted to Islam; my mother and siblings are not Muslim. — $400,000 estate
- My grandfather died leaving no children — just his father's line and his brothers. — $300,000 estate
- My wife died leaving me, her mother, and two half-brothers through her mother. — $240,000 estate
- My son died leaving a wife, no children, and me — his mother — plus his full brother. — $280,000 estate
Your own family
These are illustrations. To work out your own, use the Islamic inheritance calculator — it handles the same arithmetic for any configuration and lets you pick your madhhab.
Note
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 one of the references below. Legislation and dollar thresholds change — verify against the primary source before relying on any figure.
Scholarly & institutional references
- Research Papers — Cambridge Muslim College
- Academics — Islamic law and theology curriculum — Zaytuna College
- Renovatio: The Journal of Zaytuna College — Zaytuna College
- Oxford Islamic Studies / Oxford Reference — Oxford University Press
- Encyclopaedia of Islam — Brill
Islamic primary sources
- Surah an-Nisa 4:11 — shares of children and parents — Quran.com
- Surah an-Nisa 4:12 — shares of spouses and uterine siblings — Quran.com
- Surah an-Nisa 4:176 — the kalalah verse — Quran.com
- Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 85: Laws of Inheritance (Faraid) — Sunnah.com
- Sahih Muslim, Book of Inheritance — Sunnah.com
Canadian legislation & government
- Succession Law Reform Act, RSO 1990, c S.26 — Government of Ontario
- Administering estates — Government of Ontario
- Wills, Estates and Succession Act, SBC 2009, c 13 — BC Laws
Canadian legal commentary
- Does spouse inherit if no will ontario — Treadstone Law
- Per stirpes distribution intestacy ontario — Treadstone Law
- Co ownership death no will ontario — Treadstone Law
- Selling estate property no will intestate authority ontario — Treadstone Law
- Does intestacy affect rrsp or tfsa ontario — Treadstone Law
- Intestacy spouse one child ontario — Treadstone Law
- Dying without a will intestacy ontario — Treadstone Law
- Wills & estates practice — Treadstone Law