Inheritance

· 5 Jumada I 1434 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

We a family of 7 sold some land in India.We were given part of the money 700,000 equally which we divided in 100,000 each. We have now discovered that to make things easy for him the agent did not disclose to us that the land not only belonged to my father but it belonged to my fathers sisters as well, we have alhamdullilah now decided to distribute the sale of the land according to shariah. Some of my siblings have already spent the monies as approximately 2 years have passed since they were given the monies they have agreed to pay off the monies that they received by saying that they can only afford R1000 a month. Is this all right?

Answer

Effort should be made to payout the rightful heirs their full due as soon as possible.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by
Mufti Zakaria Makada
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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