The deposit is the right of the heirs
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Fatwa number ( 19907 )
Q: IfI have an elderly, ill sister who receives social security benefits and has a married daughter. She keeps the money she receives with me. She sometimes stays with her daughter and sometimes with me. She passed away while staying with me, and she said, “If the daughter needs anything, give her the money she needs.”She did not specify to me whether the money was a gift to me or a trust. She had accumulated twenty thousand riyals (20,000). Please advise me on what I should do?
A: It appears from your sister's situation that she placed the money with you as a trust to be kept safe, since she instructed you to give her daughter from it if she needed it, and it was not a gift or donation to you, as there is nothing to indicate that. Therefore,
this money, after her death, is the right of the heirs. It is to be divided among them as Allah has prescribed, so that each one takes his or her share. It is not permissible for you to take anything from it, may Allah absolve you of your responsibility, unless you are an heir to her, in which case you take the amount of your share of the inheritance according to the law.
Q: IfI have an elderly, ill sister who receives social security benefits and has a married daughter. She keeps the money she receives with me. She sometimes stays with her daughter and sometimes with me. She passed away while staying with me, and she said, “If the daughter needs anything, give her the money she needs.”She did not specify to me whether the money was a gift to me or a trust. She had accumulated twenty thousand riyals (20,000). Please advise me on what I should do?
A: It appears from your sister's situation that she placed the money with you as a trust to be kept safe, since she instructed you to give her daughter from it if she needed it, and it was not a gift or donation to you, as there is nothing to indicate that. Therefore,
this money, after her death, is the right of the heirs. It is to be divided among them as Allah has prescribed, so that each one takes his or her share. It is not permissible for you to take anything from it, may Allah absolve you of your responsibility, unless you are an heir to her, in which case you take the amount of your share of the inheritance according to the law.
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