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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Are the maternal relatives among the relatives by blood?

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The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh :
The maternal uncle inherits from the one who has no heirs. الخال وارث مَن لا وارث له
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2104Hasan (Darussalam)
, I do not have an answer at hand.

The questioner : We base this on the fact that if we say that relatives by blood are closer to one another, then ... the womb includes the lineage of the mother.

The Shaykh : Yes, but if the hadith is authentic, would it not be a specific ruling regarding inheritance, and we would not expand upon it?

The questioner : And relatives by blood means ... so this ... supports that the term "wombs" is more comprehensive.

The Shaykh : No, this is not a condition. One may inherit from someone who has no kinship, for example, if a master dies and has no heir, does the slave not inherit from him? There is no connection between the two matters.

The questioner : ... the womb in the specific sense is used for the womb, meaning the mother ... the mother's sister or her daughter ... .
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