Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Inheritance Issues Gifting to Children During Your Life Time

gifting to children during their lifetime, what is the best way to

give gift to your children? How do you have to gift it? Are you

obliged to gift to your children according to their inheritance

shares? So should you have to give

double the share to a son that you give to a daughter? So the answer

to that is no. During ones lifetime, the books of

jurisprudence are very clear that you can give everybody equally the

your sons and daughters equally it doesn't have to be double for the

sons and less for the sisters. In fact, they actually encourage that

that's what you do. Yes. If you leave anything after you die, it

will be live Zachary, mythological insane, as Allah says in the

Quran, brothers will get double the share of sisters, but in your

lifetime, you can, it's actually recommended in many cases to give

equally, okay, that's understandable. Now can you give

to one daughter or one son or two sons a bit more than the others.

Because there's a very strict Hadith about this, the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, somebody came to him and said, I

want you Yaroslavl, I want you to be witnessed that I've given this

son of mine such and such an amount of money. Now, maybe the

prophets also knew that there was some issue. There was some

unfairness, they said, Did you give all of your children this

much? He said, No. She said, Then why are you making me then a

witness to something that is unfair. So from this, we

understand that you should be fair, the reason why you have to

be fair in this is because obviously, they're your children.

And you're going to do cut or rhyme, you're going to be cutting

the ties of relationship by depriving some and giving the

others as bad. And you don't want to do that you should not be doing

that with your relatives. So that's why you should give equally

however, if you want to give one more than the other, there are

some cases in which that's allowed, right. And a lot of

people have discretion. For example, one of the sons or

daughters they've been of the huge amount of service to you, they're

the ones who are always helping, and the others, you know, either

don't have time or they live further away or whatever, then for

that, you are allowed to give them more, but you can't deprive the

others entirely. You give everybody but you can give this

person more in your life. Now remember, this is all about in

your life after death, right as inheritance, they will just have

the shader Quran gives them so if they're a sister, another one

sister will get the same. If they're a brother, another

brother, they'll get the same. But in your lifetime, you can actually

give somebody more or for example, one is poor than the others,

mashallah all the others, they have a house, right. And this poor

one is struggling, tries his best struggling, you can give them some

more, again, you give the others you don't deprive them, but you

can give them more. Another one is, for example, if one is working

in some really, really useful field, very religious field, you

know, as an animal, whatever, and they don't make so much money or

whatever, then again, you can give them more if you want to. And a

fourth, a fourth issue here within this is that can you deprive a

child because they're doing something really bad in your life.

So remember, after you die, even if you hate your wife, or your

husband or your child, you can't deprive them, you leave money,

it's going to go to them, whether you like it or not,

right? As long as they're Muslim, and you're Muslim, then they're

gonna get some, but in your lifetime, let's just say you

decide that if I leave it as inheritance, then it's going to go

to all of them like this. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to

distribute the bulk of my assets during my life, and in that I want

to deprive that particular son or daughter, because they have a

very, very bad attitude, bad attitude in the sense that the

abusers THEY MAY be addicted or something like that, and they're

gonna abuse the money in the wrong thing. In that case, you you're

not obliged to give them you can just give the others you can

deprive them in that case, but again, if you're doubtful, you

don't want to be you don't want to be accountable for it in the

hereafter. So just maybe consult with with an alum about this

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