Estimating Maintenance for the Two Lines of Descent
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the maintenance for the two lines of descent is not estimated, how does the author say that it is upon…
The Shaykh:
It is not estimated? It is estimated according to custom, to the extent that suffices the one being maintained at any given time, according to…
The questioner:
He says: How does the author say that it is one-third upon the mother and two-thirds upon the grandfather?
The Shaykh:
It is according to the share of inheritance; because if he died leaving a mother and a grandfather, how would the inheritance be? The mother gets one-third and the rest goes to the grandfather, which is two-thirds, so he owes two-thirds of the maintenance.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
And if the grandfather takes only one-sixth, as in some cases, then he owes only one-sixth of the maintenance. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the maintenance for the two lines of descent is not estimated, how does the author say that it is upon…
The Shaykh:
It is not estimated? It is estimated according to custom, to the extent that suffices the one being maintained at any given time, according to…
The questioner:
He says: How does the author say that it is one-third upon the mother and two-thirds upon the grandfather?
The Shaykh:
It is according to the share of inheritance; because if he died leaving a mother and a grandfather, how would the inheritance be? The mother gets one-third and the rest goes to the grandfather, which is two-thirds, so he owes two-thirds of the maintenance.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
And if the grandfather takes only one-sixth, as in some cases, then he owes only one-sixth of the maintenance. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 087-نفقة الأقارب والمماليك - 17-7-25 هـ — archive.org (1:20:09)
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