Specifying Certain Relatives in a Bequest or Including Them All
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Question:
If he has many maternal cousins and he makes a bequest to them, does he have to include all of them, or can he leave some out?
Answer:
And it is obligatory, and it is obligatory to specify whom he wishes. If there is a poor person, or a student of knowledge, or a person who is distressed, he specifies him, seeing that he is more deserving, he specifies him. And if he generalizes and it is ambiguous, and he generalizes, I have no objection.
If he has many maternal cousins and he makes a bequest to them, does he have to include all of them, or can he leave some out?
Answer:
And it is obligatory, and it is obligatory to specify whom he wishes. If there is a poor person, or a student of knowledge, or a person who is distressed, he specifies him, seeing that he is more deserving, he specifies him. And if he generalizes and it is ambiguous, and he generalizes, I have no objection.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح الجديد ]، باب الوصايا — islamhouse.com (18:40)
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