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Course Description: The course includes: * Statement of the reality of inheritance and heirs. * Appointed shares (fard), their owners, and the conditions for them to inherit. * Inheritance by 'asabah (residuary heirs) and its rulings. * The meaning of disqualification (hijab) and its rulings. * Inheritance of siblings with the grandfather and related rulings.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

The student should know the rights related to inheritance, the causes, conditions, and impediments of inheritance, and its jurisprudential rulings. .
The student should mention the concepts and terms of the science of inheritance, such as the obligatory share, the residue, and the impediment.
The student should identify the heirs by obligatory share, the heirs by agnatic succession, and the conditions for that.
To apply technical, computational, and numerical skills to hypothetical problems.
To divide inheritance cases.
To evaluate the work of other groups in problem-solving and to comment on it.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
The student will know the rights related to the estate, the causes of inheritance, its conditions, impediments, and its jurisprudential rulings. .
2- The student will mention concepts and terms of the science of Faraid (Islamic inheritance), such as Fard (fixed share), Ta'sib (residuary heirs), and Hujub (exclusion).
3. The student will identify heirs by fixed share (fard), heirs by residual (ta'sib), and the conditions for each.
Skills:
1. Apply technical, computational, and numerical skills to hypothetical problems.
2. To divide inheritance matters.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
1- To participate in groups and work teams.
2. To evaluate the work of other groups in problem-solving and to comment on it.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
Principles of Ilm al-Fara'id (Islamic Inheritance Law), the meaning of the estate and the rights related to it, and their order according to priority. Evidence for the legitimacy of inheritance, foundations of Islamic inheritance, and its advantages, the wisdom of inheritance, and its social impact, the wisdom of differentiation in inheritance and refutation of doubts raised about inheritance. .
Pillars of inheritance, its conditions, causes, and impediments, and related rulings. Male heirs and female heirs, and who inherits when they are together. Types of inheritance and categories of heirs accordingly.
The meaning of fixed shares (furud), fixed shares in general, and the number of their recipients. Heirs entitled to one-half, conditions for their inheritance, with evidence. Applications on the availability and exclusivity of conditions for those entitled to one-half. Heirs entitled to one-quarter, conditions for their inheritance, with evidence. Applications on the availability and absence of conditions for those entitled to one-quarter. Who is entitled to one-eighth, and the condition for their inheritance, with evidence. Applications on the availability and absence of conditions for those entitled to one-eighth. Heirs entitled to two-thirds, conditions for their inheritance, with evidence. Applications on the availability and absence of conditions for those entitled to two-thirds. Heirs entitled to one-third, conditions for their inheritance, with evidence, and the rulings of the two *Umariyya* problems. Rulings specific to children of the mother (*akhawatu li al-umm*). Heirs entitled to one-sixth, conditions for their inheritance, with evidence. The rule concerning the inheriting grandmother and the non-inheriting grandmother. Rulings on the inheritance of grandmothers. Applications on the availability and absence of conditions for those entitled to one-sixth. Applications on the availability and absence of conditions for all recipients of fixed shares collectively.
Meaning of "Asaba", the definition of "Asaba", and their categories. 1. "Asaba" by themselves: their ruling principle and the reason for their name. 2. "Asaba" through others: their evidence and the reason for their name. 3. "Asaba" with others: their evidence and the reason for their name. 4. "Asaba" with others: and the scholars' differing opinions regarding them. 5. Rulings of "Asaba" with evidence. 6. Degrees of "Asaba" by themselves. 7. How inheritance is distributed when there are two or more "Asaba". 8. Applications of "Asaba".
The meaning of obstruction and its importance, and its types. Its rules and rulings. The stipulated issue and its connection to residual heirship and obstruction. Applications of obstruction.
The meaning of grandfather and brothers, and the scholars' opinions on inheriting brothers with the grandfather. The Akdariya problem, and how to divide it. Applications on grandfather and brothers problems.

Last updated: 2026-06-02