Addendum⦗1⦘ on the womb-relatives (dhawu al-arḥām)

They are every blood relative who is neither a fixed-share heir (dhu farḍ) nor an agnatic heir (ʿaṣaba).

Their categories are eleven:

1. the descendants of daughters, whether through the deceased’s own daughters or through the daughter of a son;
2. the descendants of sisters;
3. the daughters of brothers;
4. the daughters of paternal uncles;
5. the descendants of a uterine sibling⦗2⦘;
6. a paternal uncle through his mother;
7. the paternal aunts;
8. the maternal uncles;
9. the maternal aunts;
10. the mother’s father;
11. every grandmother who is connected through a father situated between two mothers⦗3⦘.

They inherit⦗4⦘ by being placed in the position of the person through whom they trace their relationship. If several of them derive their claim from the same heir and stand at the same degree to him, that heir’s share is divided among them equally: male and female alike.

Whoever leaves no heir at all—his estate reverts to the public treasury (Bayt al-Māl). The Bayt al-Māl is not itself an heir; it merely safeguards unclaimed wealth and other assets, serving as a repository for the general welfare.