Faraid Calculator

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Calculation profile:

Choose the inheritance profile before entering estate exclusions and heirs.

Deceased sex:

Set this first so the spouse options match the deceased person.

Gross estate value:

Use the current value of assets that remain under the deceased person's estate.

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Funeral and administration expenses:

Amounts to deduct before shares are applied.

Debts and secured claims:

Include personal debts, secured balances, unpaid obligations, or similar claims that must be settled first.

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Wasiat to non-heirs:

Show the amount field only when a wasiat needs to be modeled.

Valid wasiat to non-heirs:

Enter 0 if there is no valid wasiat to model. The cap is applied automatically.

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Surviving spouse:

Choose the spouse situation for the deceased person.

Land value excluded from wife share:

Appears only for the Jafari profile when the surviving spouse is a wife or wives.

Children:

Direct sons and daughters only. A son takes twice a daughter's residuary unit.

sons daughters

Grandchildren:

Use this to flag a case for review when grandchildren may be relevant.

Parents:

Set each living parent. Grandparents are outside this calculator.

father mother

Full siblings:

Count siblings who share both parents with the deceased.

brothers sisters

Paternal siblings:

Count siblings who share the deceased person's father only.

brothers sisters

Maternal siblings:

Count siblings who share the deceased person's mother only; male and female share equally here.

maternal siblings

Distant kindred:

Appears only when direct children, parents, and common sibling fields are not active.

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Husband name:

One name for the surviving husband.

Wife names:

Names are split equally across the wives' collective share.

wife {{ slot.index }}

Son names:

Each son name labels one allocation row in the output.

son {{ slot.index }}

Daughter names:

Each daughter name labels one allocation row in the output.

daughter {{ slot.index }}

Father name:

One name for the surviving father.

Mother name:

One name for the surviving mother.

Full brother names:

Names map the full brother group share to individual rows.

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Full sister names:

Names map the full sister group share to individual rows.

sister {{ slot.index }}

Paternal brother names:

Names map the paternal brother group share to individual rows.

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Paternal sister names:

Names map the paternal sister group share to individual rows.

sister {{ slot.index }}

Maternal sibling names:

Names map the maternal sibling group share to individual rows.

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Currency label:

Formatting label for amounts and exports. Global profiles default to $; Malaysia and Singapore profiles default to RM and S$.

Amount decimals:

Use 2 for currency cents or more decimals when checking exact fractional allocation.

decimals

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Enter a positive estate after deductions to calculate shares.

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Settling a Muslim estate usually begins with family facts, not with a simple list of assets. Faraid determines who is legally entitled, which heirs receive fixed shares, who may receive what remains, and which relatives are blocked by closer heirs. A surviving wife, husband, parent, son, daughter, or sibling can change the answer in different ways, so the same estate value can produce very different allocations when one relationship fact changes.

The estate itself also needs care before shares are discussed. Funeral and administration costs, debts, and valid bequests are normally handled before the distributable estate is divided. Some jurisdictions also require separate treatment for assets that do not belong in the inheritance pool, such as property already confirmed outside the deceased person's estate, nomination items, joint ownership questions, or matrimonial-property claims.

Common Faraid terms and why they matter before allocation
Term	Plain meaning	Why it changes the answer
Fixed share	A defined fraction for an eligible heir.	Spouse, parent, child, and sibling shares depend on who else survives.
Asabah	A residuary heir group.	Residue after fixed shares may go to sons, fathers, or supported sibling groups.
Radd	Return of unassigned residue.	Some profiles return residue to eligible blood fixed-share heirs instead of sending it for treasury or authority review.
'Awl	Proportional reduction.	When fixed shares exceed the estate, each fixed claim is scaled down so the estate is not over-allocated.

Many mistakes come from treating Faraid as an equal split among living relatives. Sons and daughters may share residue by two-to-one units. A mother may receive one-third in one case and one-sixth when descendants or multiple siblings exist. A father can receive a fixed share, residue, or both depending on descendants. Siblings may be blocked by a father or son, while some daughter-only cases bring sister residue rules into the picture.

Faraid estate path from verified estate facts through prior claims, fixed shares, and residue review

Jurisdiction and school matter most where a case has residue, local exclusions, or heirs outside a direct family pattern. A calculation can be a useful planning estimate, but it cannot settle disputed marriage status, missing heirs, unborn heirs, homicide bars, conversion or religion-status issues, adopted-child treatment, grandparent claims, grandchildren through sons, nephews, uncles, or local property questions. Those facts need qualified religious and legal review before anyone acts on the numbers.

A Faraid calculation is therefore best read as a structured estimate from declared facts. It helps families see how shares might move after debts, wasiat, fixed portions, and residue treatment, while also making clear which assumptions need official confirmation.

How to Use This Tool:

Work from the facts that are least likely to change, then read the ledger and warnings before relying on the share table.

Choose Calculation profile before entering local exclusions. The profile changes available fields, default currency label, residue handling, and whether the model follows a Sunni path or the supported Shi'i-Jafari direct-family path.
Set Deceased sex and Surviving spouse. The spouse selector offers husband for a deceased woman and wife or wives for a deceased man, and multiple wives share the wives' collective portion equally.
Enter Gross estate value, Funeral and administration expenses, and Debts and secured claims. If the selected profile shows Assets outside estate, Harta sepencarian or excluded property, or Wasiat wajibah or statutory bequest, enter only amounts that have already been confirmed for that case.
Set Wasiat to non-heirs only when there is a valid non-heir bequest to model. The amount field is capped at one-third after prior deductions, and the Calculation Ledger will show whether the requested amount was reduced.
Enter direct children, parents, and the sibling counts that are visible for the selected profile. Grandchildren and distant kindred fields are review flags in this calculator; they do not create detailed allocation rows.
Open Named heirs only when you want person names in the output. Counts still drive the calculation, while names split and label rows that already receive a modeled share.
Use the summary badge, Heir Shares, Calculation Ledger, and Review Notes together. If deductions reduce the distributable estate to zero, or if a warning says an amount was ignored, capped, or outside scope, correct the input or stop for review before using the allocation.

Interpreting Results:

Start with Distributable estate and the status badge. A normal modeled allocation means the entered facts produced share rows inside the supported scope. 'Awl adjustment, Radd return, Residue to asabah, and review statuses explain how the fixed-share total and residue were handled.

How to interpret the Faraid calculator result outputs
Output	Use it for	Verify before relying on it
Heir Shares	Beneficiary labels, count, basis, share percentage, total amount, and each-person amount.	Check that every real heir has been counted or deliberately flagged for review.
Calculation Ledger	The path from gross estate to distributable estate, including deductions, capped wasiat, fixed-share total, and adjustment rule.	Confirm debts, excluded property, statutory bequest, and wasiat facts with the relevant authority.
Share Map	A visual check of who receives the modeled allocation.	Use the table for exact amounts; the chart is only a visual aid.
Profile Matrix	A comparison of how the same facts behave across available profiles.	Do not combine results from different profiles. Use the profile that matches the authority or school you are checking.
Profile Spread	A stacked chart of share percentages by profile.	Large shifts usually point to residue or Jafari treatment, not an automatic error.
Review Notes	Warnings, scope limits, ignored fields, and official-review cues.	Treat these as stop signs for real estate administration.
JSON	A portable record of inputs, assumptions, warnings, shares, ledger rows, and profile comparison.	Keep it with the assumptions that produced it. It is not a certificate.

Named-heir rows are labels, not new rules. If two wife names are entered, the wives' collective share is split across those names. If daughter names are entered, the daughters' collective share is split across the named daughter rows. The relationship counts and selected profile still determine the share math.

The main false-confidence risk is a result that totals 100% while the real case includes an unmodeled person or disputed fact. A complete-looking Heir Shares table should still be checked against Review Notes, especially for grandchildren through sons, grandparents, nephews, uncles, adopted children, unborn heirs, missing persons, homicide bars, and religion-status issues.

Technical Details:

Faraid allocation begins with the estate available for inheritance, then applies relationship rules. The gross estate is reduced by prior claims before inheritance fractions are used. That order matters because a one-third wasiat cap is calculated after prior deductions, and the final heir amounts are percentages of the distributable estate rather than the original asset total.

The modeled Sunni path applies fixed shares first, checks whether those shares exceed the estate, then allocates residue to supported asabah heirs when a residuary path exists. If fixed shares exceed 100%, 'awl scales every fixed claim by the same factor. If fixed shares leave residue and no modeled asabah receives it, the selected residue treatment can return it by radd to eligible blood fixed-share heirs or flag it for Bayt al-mal, Baitulmal, distant-kindred, Singapore certificate, or official review.

Formula Core

The estate arithmetic is deterministic for the entered values, selected profile, relationship counts, residue setting, currency label, and display precision.

\begin{array}{lll} before wasiat & = & max (0, gross estate - outside estate - expenses - debts - excluded property) \\ wasiat applied & = & min (wasiat requested, \frac{before wasiat}{3}) \\ net estate & = & max (0, before wasiat - wasiat applied - statutory bequest applied) \\ heir amount & = & net estate \times final share \\ awl factor & = & \frac{1}{sum of fixed shares} when fixed shares exceed 100% \end{array}

For example, an estate of 500,000 with 8,000 expenses and 25,000 debts has 467,000 before wasiat. With no wasiat and no active profile-specific bequest, the distributable estate is 467,000. A fixed share of one-eighth is then 58,375, before any rounding chosen for display.

Core Faraid rules represented in the result
Rule area	Modeled treatment	Boundary to review
Spouse shares	A husband receives one-half without descendants or one-quarter with descendants. Wife or wives receive one-quarter collectively without descendants or one-eighth collectively with descendants.	Spouse status, divorce status, and multiple-wife documentation need authority review.
Parent shares	Mother receives one-third in the supported no-descendant, low-sibling case, one-sixth when descendants or two or more siblings exist, and one-third of the remainder in the modeled parent-and-spouse case. Father receives one-sixth with descendants and may take residue in supported cases.	Grandparent claims are not directly allocated.
Children	Sons and daughters share residue by two-to-one child units. Daughter-only cases receive one-half for one daughter or two-thirds collectively for two or more daughters before residue is checked.	Grandchildren through sons are warning flags, not detailed share rows.
Siblings	Maternal, full, and paternal sibling cases are modeled where the visible fields support them. Father or son can block supported sibling groups.	Deeper relatives, unusual blockers, and disputed sibling status require qualified review.
Radd	When the selected mode returns residue, eligible blood fixed-share heirs receive the unassigned remainder in proportion to their fixed shares.	Spouses are excluded from this simplified radd return.
Shi'i-Jafari direct family	The direct-family profile allocates spouse, parents, and direct children within the supported first-class model. A wife land-exclusion entry can reduce the wife amount and shift that amount to supported non-wife heirs.	Siblings, grandparents, and deeper Jafari classes are flagged rather than calculated.

Precision affects display, not entitlement logic. The amount-decimals setting changes how currency values are shown in tables and exports, while fractions, percentages, and warnings still come from the same entered facts. Real distribution can require a separate rounding agreement or official allocation method when amounts are paid out.

Limits and Official Review:

This calculator provides an informational estimate for planning, checking assumptions, and preparing questions. It is not a court certificate, Faraid certificate, fatwa, estate administration order, legal advice, or religious ruling.

Use qualified review when any heir is missing, unborn, adopted, disputed, disqualified, or outside the modeled relationship fields.
Confirm local treatment for harta sepencarian, joint ownership, nominations, survivorship, insurance, CPF or pension nominations, debts, and statutory bequests before treating a value as part of the distributable estate.
Do not rely on a profile comparison as official choice of law. The governing authority, school, and jurisdiction decide which profile, if any, matches the real case.

Advanced Tips:

Choose Calculation profile before entering local exclusions, because the active profile controls residue handling, visible local fields, and the default currency label.
Use Profile Matrix to see which facts are sensitive to profile choice, then stop at the profile that matches the relevant authority or school. Do not blend the most favorable rows from different profiles.
Enter Named heirs after relationship counts are final. Names label and split rows for the modeled group, while spouse, parent, child, and sibling counts still control the shares.
Read Review Notes before sharing a result. Grandchildren through sons, deeper relatives, excluded heirs, ignored fields, and capped amounts can make a clean-looking allocation unsuitable for real administration.
Treat Amount decimals as display precision only. Actual payment rounding, currency conversion, asset sale costs, and family settlement records need a separate agreed or official method.

Worked Examples:

Global Sunni family with one son and two daughters

A 500,000 estate with 8,000 in funeral and administration expenses and 25,000 in debts produces a Distributable estate of 467,000. With one wife, father, mother, one son, and two daughters, Heir Shares shows the wife at one-eighth, the father and mother at one-sixth each, and the remaining residue split between the children by two-to-one units. The son receives half of the residue, while each daughter receives one-quarter of the residue.

Fixed shares exceed the estate

A 270,000 estate with a wife, father, mother, and two daughters produces fixed shares totaling 9/8 before adjustment. The status badge becomes 'Awl adjustment. The Calculation Ledger shows the 'awl factor, and Heir Shares reduces every fixed claim proportionally so the final amounts fit the 270,000 estate.

Malaysia profile with excluded property and capped wasiat

A Malaysia local run with RM 600,000 gross estate, RM 10,000 expenses, RM 40,000 debts, and RM 120,000 in confirmed harta sepencarian leaves RM 430,000 before wasiat. If RM 200,000 is requested as wasiat, Calculation Ledger caps Wasiat applied at RM 143,333.33. A separate RM 20,000 statutory bequest then leaves a Distributable estate of RM 266,666.67 before Faraid shares are applied.

Zero estate after deductions

If a 50,000 estate is entered with 70,000 in debts, the result area shows Enter a positive estate after deductions to calculate shares. That is a recovery cue, not a share result. Recheck whether the debt amount belongs in the estate calculation, whether some assets were omitted, or whether the case has no distributable estate to allocate.

FAQ:

Can this replace a formal Faraid certificate?

No. The result is an estimate from the entered facts. Formal inheritance work can require a court, religious authority, administrator, lawyer, or qualified scholar to verify heirs, estate values, and local rules.

Why does changing the profile change the result?

Profiles can change residue handling, local exclusions, default currency label, and the active inheritance model. Use Profile Matrix to compare, but rely only on the profile that matches the authority or school you are checking.

Why is wasiat capped?

The calculator caps modeled wasiat to non-heirs at one-third after prior deductions. The Calculation Ledger shows the cap and whether the requested amount was reduced.

Do names change the inheritance shares?

No. Relationship counts determine shares. Names only label and split output rows for groups that already receive a modeled allocation.

Why are some relatives shown only as warnings?

The calculator focuses on supported direct-family and sibling cases. Grandchildren through sons, grandparents, nephews, uncles, and deeper relatives can change real distributions, so Review Notes flags them instead of allocating them.

Is my estate information uploaded for calculation?

No upload step is used for the calculation. Treat copied URLs, exported JSON, downloaded tables, and screenshots as sensitive because they can contain estate figures, relationship facts, and names you entered.

Glossary:

Faraid: Islamic inheritance rules for identifying eligible heirs and their shares.
Wasiat: A bequest or Muslim will direction, modeled here as a non-heir amount capped at one-third after prior deductions.
Asabah: Residuary heirs who may receive what remains after fixed shares in supported cases.
Radd: Return of unassigned residue to eligible blood fixed-share heirs when the selected profile uses that treatment.
'Awl: Proportional reduction when fixed shares exceed the distributable estate.
Baitulmal or Bayt al-mal: A treasury or authority review outcome for residue in certain profiles.
Harta sepencarian: A Malaysia-related matrimonial or jointly acquired property concept that may need to be resolved before estate distribution.
Distributable estate: The estate value remaining after modeled prior deductions and bequests.

References:

Surah An-Nisa 4:11, Quran.com.
Surah An-Nisa 4:12, Quran.com.
Surah An-Nisa 4:176, Quran.com.
Faraid, Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, 21 February 2025.
Inheritance Overview, Syariah Court Singapore, 13 February 2026.
Small Estate (Distribution) Act 1955, Department of Director General of Lands and Mines, 14 May 2026.