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Division of inheritance among husband and son

Question

Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information:
- Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A son) Number 1 (A husband)
- Additional information: This is a second marriage. The husband is a Brit who converted to Islam for the purpose of marriage only.

Answer

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

If a woman dies and leaves behind a husband and a son and she did not leave any other heir – like a father, or a mother, or a grandfather, or a grandmother, or a daughter – then her husband gets one-quarter of the inheritance due to the existence of children, as Allah says (what means): {But if they have a child, for you is one fourth of what they leave, after any bequest they [may have] made or debt...} [Quran 4:12]

The remainder will be given to her son by virtue of Ta’seeb (by virtue of having a paternal relation with the deceased and not having an allotted share, so they get what is left after the allotted shares have been distributed), as the Prophet  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) said, Give the prescribed share of inheritance to those who are eligible for it and the remainder [of it] is for the nearest male blood relative.” [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]

Therefore, the inheritance should be divided into four shares, the husband gets one share and the son gets three shares.

The husband inherits as long as he is a Muslim. He is only prevented from the inheritance if he apostates, and he is not prevented from it just because he embraced Islam for the purpose of marriage.

Allah knows best.

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