Islamic Wills in Saskatoon

How do I make an Islamic will in Saskatoon?

The same way as anywhere in Saskatchewan — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Saskatoon will law. Wills are provincial, so the rules that decide whether your will is valid are Saskatchewan’s. What is genuinely local is everything around the will: which mosques here can perform a janazah, where they bury, and what it costs.

1. Work out the shares. The faraid calculator gives every heir’s fraction under the school you follow, with a written report you can hand to a drafter.
2. Meet Saskatchewan’s formalities. This is the part that decides whether the document works at all — valid (the Saskatchewan formalities in full).
3. Check your beneficiary designations. An RRSP, a TFSA or a life policy with a named beneficiary may pass outside the estate under Canadian law — whether it also sits outside the tarikah is disputed among contemporary scholars, so do not assume it escapes the shares.
4. Have it drafted. The Registry does not draft wills. Treadstone Law, an independent Ontario firm, handles the drafting side.
5. Record where it is kept — free, and it is what lets your executor find it.

The Saskatchewan rules that decide whether it works

Deeper: making a valid will · dying without one · probate · challenges.

Mosques in Saskatoon with janazah services

An Islamic will usually records burial wishes — ghusl, kafan, burial without delay. A janazah needs physical facilities: a mortuary, cold storage, a washing room. Not every mosque has them.

These are the 3 Saskatoon mosques with a confirmed service, from each organisation’s own published information.

The other 2 Saskatoon mosques we list have not published a funeral service. A blank is not a no — it means we could not confirm it.

Where Saskatoon’s mosques bury

Saskatoon’s mosques name 2 burial grounds on their own funeral pages. That is confirmation from the masjid, not from the cemetery.

• Prairie Muslim Cemetery
• Woodlawn Cemetery

Burial grounds in Saskatoon

Prairie Muslim Cemetery — an entirely Muslim cemetery, about 10 acres, plots available. Muslim cemetery owned and run by the Prairie Muslim Association, in operation since 2022, on Range Road 3062 near Vanscoy (the site describes it as a ten-minute drive from the PMA masjid, near Bucks Auto Salvage). The parcel is roughly 80 acres of agricultural land with about 10 acres set aside for the graveyard, so the acreage figure is the planned burial area rather than developed ground. Published prices: plot $1,500, opening and closing $1,300, optional headstone $800. Roughly a dozen burials had taken place as of the page's last update. Contact 306-374-7860 or pmasask@yahoo.ca.

Mosques that name it on their own funeral pages: Prairie Muslim Association (Saskatoon Masjid).

Woodlawn Cemetery. City of Saskatoon municipal cemetery at 33rd Street and Warman Road, operating since 1905, and the burial ground the Islamic Association of Saskatchewan names on its own funeral page: 'Saskatoon Funeral Home will arrange to have the deceased transferred to the IAS for Ghusl + Janazah Prayer and to the Woodlawn Cemetery (1502 2nd Ave N).' The City describes the grounds as accommodating all religious traditions with designated areas for different denominations, but does not name a Muslim section, so that is left unconfirmed. No phone is published here because the City cemeteries line could not be read directly from saskatoon.ca - arrange Muslim burials through IAS on 306-665-6424, and confirm cemetery fees with the City.

Mosques that name it on their own funeral pages: Islamic Association of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon) Inc..

What a burial costs here

Islamic schools, for the guardianship clause

A will names a guardian for children under 18, and families often want that person to keep the children in Islamic education. We list 4 schools in Saskatoon: Saskatoon Islamic Academy (SIA). All Saskatoon listings ›

The organisations in Saskatoon

Each account below is drawn from the organisation’s own published information, checked on the date shown in its directory entry. We record what they say about themselves; we do not assess it.