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Malik said, "The generally agreed upon way of doing things among
us is that maternal half-siblings do not inherit anything when there
are children or grandchildren through sons, male or female. They do
not inherit anything when there is a father or the father's father.
They inherit in what is outside of that. If there is only one male or
female, they are given a sixth. If there are two, each of them has a
sixth. If there are more than that, they share in a third which is
divided among them. The male does not have portion of two females.
That is because Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted, says in His Book, 'If
a man or woman has no direct heir, and he has a brother or sister, by
the mother, each of them has a sixth. If there are more than two, they
share equally in a third.' " (Sura 4 ayat 12).
Muwatta Malik Book 27, Hadith 4
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Malik said, "The generally agreed on way of doing things among us
about which there is no dispute and what I have seen the people of
knowledge in our city doing is that when a father inherits from a son
or a daughter and the deceased leaves children, or grandchildren
through a son, the father has a fixed share of one sixth. If the
deceased does leave any children or male grandchildren through a son,
the apportioning begins with those with whom the father shares in the
fixed shares. They are given their fixed shares. If a sixth or more is
left over, the sixth and what is above it is given to the father, and
if there is less than a sixth left, the father is given his sixth as a
fixed share, (i.e. the other shares are adjusted.)
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Malik said, "The generally agreed on way of doing things among us
is that full siblings do not inherit anything with sons nor anything
with grandsons through a son, nor anything with the father. They do
inherit with the daughters and the granddaughters through a son when
the deceased does not leave a paternal grandfather. Any property that
is left over, they are in it as paternal relations. One begins with
the people who are allotted fixed shares. They are given their shares.
If there is anything left over after that, it belongs to the full
siblings. They divide it between themselves according to the Book of
Allah, whether they are male or female. The male has a portion of two
females. If there is nothing left over, they have nothing.