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The Ruling on Inheritance Between a Muslim and a Disbeliever and an Apostate

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Question:
Religion, so no one may inherit from another of a different religion, based on the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
A Muslim may not inherit from an infidel nor an infidel from a Muslim.لا يجز المسلم الكافر، ولا الكافر المسلم
Sunan Abi Dawud 2909Sahih (Al-Albani)
The knowledge is valid from the hadith of the smile or the night.

Answer:
This is a point of consensus among the scholars that there is no inheritance between a Muslim and a disbeliever, nor between a disbeliever and a Muslim. There is a narration in the school of jurisprudence that a Muslim inherits from a disbeliever through offspring, but the correct view is that there is no inheritance absolutely, neither through kinship nor otherwise, due to the hadith of Usamah ibn Zayd: "A Muslim does not inherit from a disbeliever, nor a disbeliever from a Muslim." This is a general ruling. Yes. As for the apostate, he does not possess any right, because he is not a Muslim. As for the apostate who was upon Islam and then apostatized from the religion of Islam, no one inherits from him, neither the Muslims nor the disbelievers.
Source شرح كتاب العدة شرح العمدة في الفقه، كتاب الفرائض - باب موانع الميراث — alfawzan.live (16:58)

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