Answer: Yes. Provided that there are no other heirs, the basic ruling is that the male receives a share equal to that of two females—whether that applies to the whole eighty thousand if they are the only heirs, or to their proportionate share of it if there are additional heirs.

Question: Even if their father had merely left this amount with her as a trust for her to hand over to them after his death?

Answer: Yes; once their father passed away, the sum became inheritance.

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Bequest and Inheritance

Question: Our father died and left us an estate. However, our grandmother—his mother—had given him a number of head of livestock, representing part of the one-third of her estate that she could dispose of as she wished. What should we do with this livestock? Should we add it to our father’s estate, give it in charity, or do something else with it? Please advise us, and may Allah bless you.

Answer: If this livestock was a bequest from your grandmother to be managed after her death for charitable purposes, and your father was in charge of tending it and carrying out her instructions, then the bequest must continue and be executed exactly as the deceased stipulated. There should be a written document to that effect, or at least people who know the details, so make inquiries of them.

In short, the livestock you mentioned appears to be part of the deceased’s bequest, and your father had been nurturing it and spending from it in accordance with his mother’s wishes. You must therefore look into the matter and fulfil that bequest.