My father passed away recently (may Allah (swt) forgive his sins and bless him) leaving behind family as follows: Wife , 4 sons (3 married, 3 grandchildren) , 3 sisters (one married, one widow, one spinster) , Mother and Father . I have read the Qur'an, but found the conditions of inheritance a little complicated to understand. Please inform me of the correct split of the estate of my father, and also how much, if any, of that estate can go towards charity.
Praise be to Allah.What
you have to do is refer to the nearest sharee’ah court to divide the
inheritance, after paying any debts that are owed and executing the
will of the deceased with regard to one-third or less of the estate.
Then the division of the estate among the heirs should be done after
the necessary conditions have been met and there is nothing to prevent
it being done. In any case, once the necessary conditions have been
met and there is nothing to prevent the estate being divided, and there
are no other heirs apart from these:
-The
wife should take one-eighth (1/8), because there are offspring who are
entitled to inherit.
-The father
should take one-sixth (1/6), because there are male offspring who are
entitled to inherit.
-The mother
should take one sixth (1/6) because there are offspring who are entitled
to inherit
-The remaining
children should take equal shares, so long as they are all male. But
the grandchildren and sisters doe not receive any share, because there
are offspring who are entitled to inherit, and these are the sons.