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The spouses inherit from one another during the wife’s waiting period (ʿidda) that follows a revocable divorce, not an irrevocable one, whether the divorce occurred while the husband was healthy or in an illness that is not feared to be fatal. If, however, he makes the divorce irrevocable during a terminal illness and there is suspicion that he meant to deprive her of inheritance; or he had, while healthy, suspended an irrevocable divorce so that it would take effect when he fell ill; or he linked the divorce to some act of his and then carried out that act during his fatal illness or the like—then he does not inherit from her. She, on the other hand, inherits from him both within the ʿidda and after it, unless she remarries or apostasies.

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A killer does not inherit, whether he acted alone or in partnership, directly or indirectly, even if he is not legally responsible, so long as retaliation, expiation, or blood money would normally be required (1). This exclusion does not apply to a killing carried out lawfully, such as in retribution (qiṣāṣ), a prescribed penalty (ḥadd), execution ordered on the basis of testimony, and the like.

A slave neither inherits nor is inherited through.

A partially emancipated person both inherits and transmits inheritance, and he bars other heirs in proportion to the share of him that is free.

Whoever emancipates a slave acquires that slave’s walāʾ (patronage), even if the two follow different religions. No woman inherits by walāʾ except one who has herself set a slave free, or one who is freed by someone she had previously emancipated, whether through a kitābah contract or otherwise.