He died in an accident and has a debt; should his debt be paid from the blood money?
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Fatwa No. ( 21601 )
Praise be to Allah alone, and peace and blessings be upon the one after whom there is no prophet. And after: The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta has reviewed what was sent to His Eminence the Grand Mufti from the questioner: the Notary Public of al-Majarah Governorate, Shaykh: Shubayli ibn Jabir Asiri, and referred to the Committee by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars with number (4188) and date 13/7/1421 AH. The questioner asked a question, the text of which is as follows: We submit to Your Eminence the summons presented by the citizen: (A. M. 'A. R.), who states that his son died in a traffic accident, and left behind at the time of his death a father, a mother, and a pregnant wife, and he had a debt of approximately sixty thousand riyals. He requests a fatwa as follows: 1 - Is it possible to pay the deceased's debt from this blood money while the pregnancy exists?
2 - If the remaining heirs are poor and cannot pay this debt, we hope Your Eminence will issue a ruling on this, and may Allah preserve you and care for you. Amen.
After the Committee studied the question, it answered that if the facts are as stated, it is obligatory to pay the debt on behalf of the deceased from his estate or his blood money, and his legal bequest, if any, is to be paid after the debt is settled, and whatever remains after that is to be distributed among his heirs through the Sharia court. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Praise be to Allah alone, and peace and blessings be upon the one after whom there is no prophet. And after: The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta has reviewed what was sent to His Eminence the Grand Mufti from the questioner: the Notary Public of al-Majarah Governorate, Shaykh: Shubayli ibn Jabir Asiri, and referred to the Committee by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars with number (4188) and date 13/7/1421 AH. The questioner asked a question, the text of which is as follows: We submit to Your Eminence the summons presented by the citizen: (A. M. 'A. R.), who states that his son died in a traffic accident, and left behind at the time of his death a father, a mother, and a pregnant wife, and he had a debt of approximately sixty thousand riyals. He requests a fatwa as follows: 1 - Is it possible to pay the deceased's debt from this blood money while the pregnancy exists?
2 - If the remaining heirs are poor and cannot pay this debt, we hope Your Eminence will issue a ruling on this, and may Allah preserve you and care for you. Amen.
After the Committee studied the question, it answered that if the facts are as stated, it is obligatory to pay the debt on behalf of the deceased from his estate or his blood money, and his legal bequest, if any, is to be paid after the debt is settled, and whatever remains after that is to be distributed among his heirs through the Sharia court. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
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