The Ruling on Taking Money from a Father’s Estate for a Wedding Feast
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
The questioner asks: Is it permissible for me to take a sum of money from my deceased father’s estate and hold a walimah (wedding feast) for my relatives with it, as a means of maintaining family ties and as a reward for my father? It is known that he bequeathed one-third of his estate to acts of righteousness?
Answer:
Is what is taken from the one-third, or is it taken from the entire estate, only from the one-third? Yes.
The questioner asks: Is it permissible for me to take a sum of money from my deceased father’s estate and hold a walimah (wedding feast) for my relatives with it, as a means of maintaining family ties and as a reward for my father? It is known that he bequeathed one-third of his estate to acts of righteousness?
Answer:
Is what is taken from the one-third, or is it taken from the entire estate, only from the one-third? Yes.
Source
مجالس رمضانية. رمضان شهرعظيم مبارك وموسم خيرات وبركات )-الجمعة 09-09-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (24:56)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.