Surah An-Nisaa 4:11
The Womenسُورَةُ النِّسَاءِ- Surah 4
- Ayah 11
Sources
Inheritance in Islam
The rules of Islamic inheritance come from the Quran and the Sunnah. Here are the verses of the Quran on inheritance and bequests in the original Arabic with translation, followed by authentic hadith on how the Prophet ﷺ applied them.
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The Quran
Verses on inheritance and bequests
Grouped by theme. Each verse shows its surah, ayah, juz and page in the standard Madinah mushaf.
The Sunnah
Hadith on inheritance
Narrations from the standard collections showing how the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions applied the verses. Each shows its collection, number, narrator and grading.
Fixed shares first, then the residue
Sahih al-Bukhari 6732
Book of the Laws of Inheritance (Kitab al-Fara'id) · Narrated by Ibn Abbas
- Sahih · Consensus of scholars on Sahih al-Bukhari
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " أَلْحِقُوا الْفَرَائِضَ بِأَهْلِهَا، فَمَا بَقِيَ فَهْوَ لأَوْلَى رَجُلٍ ذَكَرٍ ".
A daughter, a son's daughter and a sister
Sahih al-Bukhari 6736
Book of the Laws of Inheritance (Kitab al-Fara'id) · Narrated by Huzayl ibn Shurahbil
- Sahih · Consensus of scholars on Sahih al-Bukhari
حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو قَيْسٍ، سَمِعْتُ هُزَيْلَ بْنَ شُرَحْبِيلَ، قَالَ سُئِلَ أَبُو مُوسَى عَنِ ابْنَةٍ وَابْنَةِ ابْنٍ وَأُخْتٍ، فَقَالَ لِلاِبْنَةِ النِّصْفُ وَلِلأُخْتِ النِّصْفُ، وَأْتِ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ فَسَيُتَابِعُنِي. فَسُئِلَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ وَأُخْبِرَ بِقَوْلِ أَبِي مُوسَى، فَقَالَ لَقَدْ ضَلَلْتُ إِذًا وَمَا أَنَا مِنَ الْمُهْتَدِينَ،، أَقْضِي فِيهَا بِمَا قَضَى النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لِلاِبْنَةِ النِّصْفُ، وَلاِبْنَةِ ابْنٍ السُّدُسُ تَكْمِلَةَ الثُّلُثَيْنِ، وَمَا بَقِيَ فَلِلأُخْتِ ". فَأَتَيْنَا أَبَا مُوسَى فَأَخْبَرْنَاهُ بِقَوْلِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، فَقَالَ لاَ تَسْأَلُونِي مَا دَامَ هَذَا الْحَبْرُ فِيكُمْ.
About these sources
Where the texts come from
- Arabic text of the Quran
- Tanzil Project, Uthmani text (tanzil.net), used unmodified with attribution. The text is shown exactly as published, without changes.
- English translation of the Quran
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary (1934), public domain in Canada
- Urdu translation of the Quran
- Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry, Urdu translation of the Qur'an, public domain in Canada
- Arabic text of the hadith
- Arabic text and gradings from the fawazahmed0/hadith-api dataset of the standard collections. Gradings are those published by the scholars named on each narration. Narrations from Sahih al-Bukhari are accepted as authentic by the consensus of Sunni scholars.
- English meaning of the hadith
- Renderings of meaning prepared by mWill, pending review by a qualified scholar. Where a translation and the Arabic differ, the Arabic is authoritative.
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