MirathميراثFRENع

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

HeirShare%Amount
WifeFixed share12.50%F CFA 1,250,000
2 sonsResiduary70%F CFA 7,000,000F CFA 3,500,000 each
DaughterResiduary17.50%F CFA 1,750,000
Total1100%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 cases

Nothing 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.

Once the page has loaded, Mirath also works without a connection.

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 note

Common situations

Cases already worked out, with the full explanation. Open one and put in your own figures.

Work out your zakat too

Cash, gold, stock, receivables: the nisab is shown live from the gold price in CFA francs.

Open the zakat calculator

For notaries and imams

Several files, your office letterhead on the PDF. A first version is here; more is coming.

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