six and a quarter. Expand them into quarters, and they become twenty-five; these are the shares of the carat. The daughter has, from the first [calculation], four multiplied by ten, which is forty; she has [a right to] four for [every] twenty-five, and fifteen remain. Multiply them by the denominator of the fraction, and they become sixty. Divide it by twenty-five, and the result is two and two-fifths; thus she has six and two-fifths. The father has, from the first and the second, twenty-six; he has four carats for twenty-five, and expand the remaining share into quarters, and it becomes four-fifths of a fifth. The husband has thirty from the first; he has four carats for twenty-five of them, and expand the remaining five, and they become twenty, which is four-fifths of a carat. The mother of the second has two shares; expand them into quarters, and they become a fifth of a carat and three-fifths of a fifth of a carat. The same applies to each sister from the mother, and the two sisters from the father have the same as that. The sister from both parents has six; expand them into quarters, and they become four-fifths of a carat and four-fifths of a fifth.

Section: On the Division of Estates. If it is possible to relate the shares of each heir from the problem, and then give them from the estate the same proportion, that is good. An example of this is a husband, two parents, and two daughters, and the estate is forty dinars. The husband has three, which is one-fifth of the problem, so he has one-fifth of the estate, which is eight dinars. Each of the two parents has two-thirds of one-fifth of the problem, so he has two-thirds of eight. Each of the two daughters has the same as what both parents have. If you wish, multiply the shares of each heir by the estate and divide that by the problem; what results is his share. If you wish, divide the estate by the problem, then multiply the result of the division by the shares of each heir; what reaches [the result] is his [share]. If the problem is an indivisible number (asamm), you act according to one of these two methods. If there is a fraction in the shares, expand it according to its type, as we mentioned regarding the division over the carats of the dinar. In the division of the estate in cases of consecutive successions (munasakhat), you may divide the estate or the carats by the first problem; whatever results for the second deceased, you divide it by his problem, and then do the same with the third, the fourth, and those after them. If there is a common factor (muwafaqa) between the problem and the estate, take the common divisor (wafq) of both of them, and do with them what we have mentioned.