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Al-Mughni by Ibn Qudama - Edited by Al-Turki
Volume 8 · Page 444964 - Issue: He said: (If he bequeaths half of his wealth to Zayd and a quarter to Amr, and the heirs do not permit [the excess over the third], the third is divided between them in three shares; Amr receives one share, and Zayd receives two shares.)

Translation · EN

to the owner of the completion until the one hundred is completed for its owner, then the third is divided between the other two legatees into two halves. The owner of the one hundred competes with the owner of the completion, but he does not give him anything; because he only becomes entitled after the completion of the one hundred for its owner, and it was not completed for him. It is permissible that he competes with it without giving him anything, just as the full brother competes with the paternal grandfather through the paternal brother, but he does not give him anything.

964 - Issue: He said: "And if he bequeathed to Zayd one-half of his estate, and to Amr one-fourth of his estate, and the heirs did not permit that, then the third is between them in three shares: for Amr is one share, and for Zayd are two shares."

The general principle is that if he bequeathed portions of the estate, you take them from their denominator and divide the remainder among the heirs. If they do not permit it, you divide the third among the legatees according to the proportions of their shares in the case of permission, and you divide the two-thirds among the heirs. There is no difference between whether among the legatees there is someone whose bequest exceeds the third or not. This is the view of the majority, including Al-Hasan, Al-Nakha'i, Malik, Ibn Abi Layla, Al-Thawri, Al-Shafi'i, Ishaq, Abu Yusuf, and Muhammad. Abu Hanifa, Abu Thawr, and Ibn al-Mundhir said: The legatee does not receive more than the third in the case of rejection; because what exceeds the third is void, so how can he receive a share based on it? Our evidence is that he differentiated between them in the bequest, so equality is not permissible, just as if he had bequeathed a third and a fourth, or one hundred and two hundred, while his estate is four hundred. This invalidates what they mentioned. Also, it is a valid bequest for which the third was insufficient, so it is divided among them according to the proportions of the bequests, just like the third and the fourth. The matter is not as they stated regarding the invalidity of the bequest, for the bequest is valid based on what we mentioned previously. According to this, if he bequeathed to Zayd one-half of his estate and to Amr one-fourth of it, the two legatees receive three-fourths of the estate if

Notes

(35) In the original: "with the owner". (1) Omitted from: M. (2) In M: "that". (3) In the original, A: "so divide".

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