Classes of Heirs (Muslim Law)

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....; (2) "Residuaries" are those who take no prescribed share, but succeed to the "residue" after the claims of the sharers are satisfied; (3) "Distant Kindred" are all those relations by blood who are neither Sharers nor Residuaries. Sharers take in the following manner: 63. Sharers After payment of funeral expenses, debts, and legacies, the first step in the distribution of the estate, of a ....

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....g manner: 65. Residuaries If there are no Sharers, or if there are Sharers, but there is a residue left after satisfying their claims, the whole inheritance or the residue, as the case may be, devolves upon Residuaries in the order set forth in the annexed table (p. 74A). The Residuaries or Agnatic heirs were the principal heirs before Islam; they continue to remain the principal hei....

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.... (their inheritance), to the male a portion equal to that of two females.... They ask thee for a legal decision. Say: Allah directs (thus) about those who leave no descendants or ascendants as heir. If it is a man that dies, leaving a sister but no child, she shall have half the inheritance. If (such a deceased was) a woman who left no child, her brother takes her inheritance... If they are brot....