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Free tools and reference material — no account, no paywall.

This is legal information only. For advice on your own circumstances, speak to a lawyer.

Everything here is free, needs no account, and is written to be used rather than skimmed. The tools sit alongside the reference material because in practice people arrive needing one and discover they need the other.

If someone has just died, start with the janazah checklist. It is built for the first few hours, when there is no time to read anything longer.
Free tool

Islamic inheritance calculator

Select your madhhab, enter the family and the estate, and get a faraid distribution with dollar amounts and the reasoning shown. Ends in a full written report.

Printable

Janazah checklist

A printable checklist for the first hours and days after a death — what has to happen immediately, who to call, and the paperwork Canada requires.

Guide series

The executor’s guide

Nine guides covering what an executor actually has to do, from the first week through to final distribution and discharge.

Reference

The four madhahib

What the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi‘i and Hanbali schools agree on, and the specific inheritance positions where they diverge.

221 terms

Glossary

221 terms from Islamic and Canadian estate law, each with the position of all four schools where they differ, and cited throughout.

501 answers

Answers

501 questions answered under both Islamic and Canadian law, with citations.

20 scenarios

Case studies

Worked scenarios showing how a real family situation resolves under faraid and under Canadian law — and where the two pull apart.

13 jurisdictions

Province guides

All 13 provinces and territories: the court, the statute, probate fees, intestacy rules, and how each interacts with a faraid distribution.

By city

Cities

Find your city and follow it through to the provincial law that governs your estate.

How to use these together

A common path through this material: someone dies → the janazah checklist covers the first days → the calculator shows how the estate divides under your school → the provincial guide explains what the court requires → the executor’s guide walks through administering it.

If you are planning rather than responding, reverse it: read your province’s guide, run the calculator on your own family, then speak to a lawyer about drafting a will that gives effect to it.