The ruling on not informing one's children of a debt and explaining the bequest
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some people in their lifetime do not inform their sons or their descendants that they have a debt to so-and-so and so-and-so. These people, Honorable Shaykh, may be overtaken by death and leave this life without informing their children.
Answer:
Merely informing someone is not sufficient; it must be in writing. This is an obligatory bequest: he must make a bequest regarding his wealth and what he owes. He should write down his wealth and his debts while he is still alive so that rights are not lost after his death. This is an obligatory bequest to make regarding his wealth and what he owes. As for merely informing someone that he has a debt, that is not enough; the person he informed might die, or he might forget or not take it seriously. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, some people in their lifetime do not inform their sons or their descendants that they have a debt to so-and-so and so-and-so. These people, Honorable Shaykh, may be overtaken by death and leave this life without informing their children.
Answer:
Merely informing someone is not sufficient; it must be in writing. This is an obligatory bequest: he must make a bequest regarding his wealth and what he owes.
The right of a Muslim, as stated in the authentic hadith, is that the right of a Muslim is that he does not spend two nights without his will being written.
حق امرئ مسلم كما في الحديث الصحيح ما حق امرئ مسلم يبيت ليلتين الا ووصيته مكتوبه
Source
فتاوى على الهواء 22-04-1436هـ — af.org.sa (11:36)
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