An Islamic estate, divided and explained line by line.
Under the Maliki school, the one followed in Senegal; Hanafi, Shafi'i and Hanbali if you need them. Every share comes with its verse, hadith and the matching article of the Senegalese Family Code.
The calculation runs on your device. No data is sent anywhere.
Example: a man leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter
Net estate: F CFA 10,000,000
| Heir | Share | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| WifeFixed share | F CFA 1,250,000 | |
| 2 sonsResiduary | F CFA 7,000,000F CFA 3,500,000 each | |
| DaughterResiduary | F CFA 1,750,000 | |
| Total | 1 | F CFA 10,000,000 |
Why you can rely on it
The engine is tested against 65 solved cases from the standard works: Ibn Abi Zayd's Risala, Khalil's Mukhtasar, the Rahbiyya, al-Mughni, the Sirajiyya. They run again on every code change, and you can read every one of them.
See the 65 verified casesNothing leaves your phone
The whole calculation runs in your browser. No account, no server, no database. A share link carries the case itself after the # sign, the part of an address browsers never send to a server.
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What it handles
- Spouses (up to four wives), parents, grandparents, children and sons' children
- Full, paternal and maternal siblings, nephews, paternal uncles and cousins
- Fixed shares, residuaries ('asaba), full and partial exclusion
- 'Awl, radd, al-'Umariyyatan, al-Mushtaraka, al-Akdariyya, al-Malikiyya
- The grandfather with siblings (Zayd's division, al-Mu'adda)
- Funeral costs, debts, and a bequest capped at one third
What it doesn't do yet
- A missing person (mafqud) or an unborn child (haml)
- The intersex heir (khuntha)
- Simultaneous deaths (drowning, accidents)
- Relatives through women (dhawu al-arham), beyond flagging them
- Impediments (homicide, difference of religion): none are assumed
In those situations, go straight to a notary or a scholar.
What about Senegalese law?
In Senegal, the Family Code (Book VI, Title III, articles 571 to 653) sets out these rules. They apply to the estate of anyone who, during their life, "expressly or through their conduct, indisputably showed their wish" for their estate to pass under Muslim law (art. 571). Otherwise the Code's general regime applies.
Read the full noteCommon situations
Cases already worked out, with the full explanation. Open one and put in your own figures.
- Wife, 2 sons, daughterA man
- Wife, sonA man
- Wife, 3 daughtersA man
- Wife, 2 daughters, full brotherA man
- Wife, daughter, father, motherA man
- 2 wives, 3 sons, 2 daughtersA man
- 4 wives, 4 sons, 5 daughters, motherA man
- Wife, father, motherA man
- Wife, mother, 2 full brothersA man
- Wife, full brother, full sisterA man
- Father, mother, 2 sonsA man
- Husband, son, daughterA woman
- Husband, 2 daughters, father, motherA woman
- Husband, mother, fatherA woman
- Husband, full sisterA woman
- Husband, mother, 2 maternal half-brothers, full brotherA woman
- DaughterA man
- Daughter, full sisterA man
- Mother, daughter, son's daughterA man
- Paternal grandfather, 2 full brothers, wifeA man
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