After deducting funeral expenses, debts, owed zakat, unpaid mahr and any wasiyyah (capped at 1/3 of the remainder), the estate is distributed according to the fixed shares (furud) in Surah an-Nisa 4:11, 4:12 and 4:176, with the residue going to the asabah (residuary heirs). Awl (proportional reduction) and radd (return to sharers) are applied automatically when the fractions exceed or fall short of unity.

Yes — the Faraid engine supports Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali rulesets and shows the per-school differences (dhawu al-arham eligibility, grandmother’s share under conflicting paternal/maternal lines, jadd-and-siblings cases). Ja’fari (Shia) ruleset is on the roadmap.

A Muslim may bequeath up to 1/3 of the estate to non-heirs — established by the hadith of Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas. A bequest to a Quranic heir is invalid unless ratified by the other heirs. The remaining 2/3 of the estate is distributed by the fixed faraid shares.

Nisab is the minimum wealth threshold at which Zakat becomes obligatory. It equals the value of 85g of gold (gold Nisab) or 595g of silver (silver Nisab). The two are not the same monetary amount today — silver Nisab is far lower. The majority opinion (Jumhur, including Hanafi) is to use the silver Nisab so that more wealth qualifies and more recipients benefit.

No. Amanah by Zakat.International runs all calculations in your browser. Your asset breakdowns, heir lists, debts, witness names, executor details, bank account references and password hints are never transmitted to our servers. The only outbound network calls are live gold/silver spot prices and an optional IP-based country auto-detect — both anonymous.

The math is 100% deterministic JavaScript — no AI/LLM runs the inheritance calculation. AI (Claude Sonnet 4.5) is used only as an optional plain-language advisor to explain each share. The engine implements the classical rulings of awl, radd, hajb hirman, hajb nuqsan, al-‘Umariyyatain (the two Umari cases), and the al-mu’addah / al-akdariyya edge cases per madhhab.

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(1) Funeral expenses, (2) outstanding debts including owed Zakat and unpaid Mahr, (3) the wasiyyah (capped at 1/3 of the post-debt remainder), and finally (4) the faraid shares distributed to legal heirs per the Quranic verses. This ordering is the established consensus across all four Sunni schools.

No. The wasiyyah cap of 1/3 is a binding limit established by the hadith of Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas. The remaining 2/3 must follow the Quranic faraid shares. Any bequest exceeding 1/3 or naming a Quranic heir is invalid unless the other heirs explicitly consent after the death — never before.