Chapter: Kin by womb who do not inherit

According to Mālik and the scholars of the Ḥijāz, the children of daughters receive no share of the estate, whether they are male or female, and the same applies to the children of sisters. Likewise, the daughters of full or paternal brothers, the daughters of maternal brothers, the paternal and maternal aunts in every degree, the maternal uncle (the mother’s brother), the paternal uncle who is a maternal half-brother of the father, and the maternal grandfather—all of these are classed as kin by womb (dhawu al-arḥām). Zayd ibn Thābit held that such relatives do not inherit on the strength of their kinship at all, neither alongside agnatic heirs nor with