Relating to the law of inheritance, those relatives in whose
line of relationship no female enters. There is no fixed share
of the sabah prescribed in the Quran. If the deceased is
not survived by any dhawul1araid, the whole of the
property falls to the asabah, otherwise the residue of
the dhawul1araid. The asabat are the following
relatives: (a) sons and daughters (grandsons/ daughters in the
absence of sons and daughters); (b) father, grandfather and
great-grand-father, if there is no son, grandson, daughters and
grand daughters); (c) in the absence of son, grandson, daughter,
grand-daughter, father, grand-father, brother is an asabah
including sons and daughters of the brother if the brother is
not alive;(d) consanguine brother; if there is no consanguine
brother.
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