Islamic inheritance calculator
Enter the estate and the surviving relatives. See each heir's share as a fraction and in dirhams, with the rule behind it.
Islamic inheritance has complex cases and schools that differ. In the UAE, the personal status court confirms the heirs and divides the estate. Use this to understand the shares, not to divide real money. Non-Muslims may follow other rules: see below.
The estate
Capped at one third of what is left after costs and debts. More needs the heirs' consent.
The person who died
Surviving relatives
Brothers and sisters
Others
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How the estate is divided
Last checked: 27 Oct 2026
First the funeral costs, then the debts. Then a will to non-heirs, up to one third of what is left. A will above one third, or to an heir, needs the heirs' consent.
Spouses, parents, daughters, grandmothers and some siblings have shares fixed in the Quran: 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 2/3, 1/3 or 1/6. Closer relatives can reduce or block others.
What is left goes to the closest male relative on the father's side: sons first, then son's sons, father, grandfather, brothers. Daughters with sons, and sisters with brothers, take half a male's share.
If the fixed shares add up to more than the whole, each is reduced in proportion ('awl). If something is left and there is no residuary, it goes back to the fixed-share heirs other than the spouse, in proportion (radd).
Under the UAE Personal Status Law (Article 179), the children of a son or daughter who died before the parent can be entitled to a mandatory will, up to one third, taken before other wills. This calculator does not compute it.
Non-Muslims may follow other rules. Under the federal civil personal status law for non-Muslims (Federal Decree-Law No. 41 of 2022), without a will the spouse takes half and the children share the other half equally, sons and daughters alike. In Abu Dhabi, the Civil Family Court of the Judicial Department registers wills for non-Muslims.
Sources (last checked 27 Oct 2026): Federal Decree-Law No. 41 of 2024 on Personal Status, in force since 15 April 2025 (official text on uaelegislation.gov.ae): Article 1 (where the law has no text, the judge rules by Islamic Sharia; who the law applies to), Article 173 (a will takes effect within one third after expenses), Article 179 (mandatory will for the children of a deceased son or daughter, within one third, before other wills), Article 182 (a will is valid across religions), Article 193 (above one third needs the heirs' approval); summaries by Gulf Today and law firms. We could not read the law's inheritance-shares chapter online, so the shares follow the standard rules of Islamic inheritance (fara'id) as taught in the four Sunni schools; where the schools differ (grandfather with brothers, the mushtaraka case, a spouse as the only heir) the tool says "complex: ask the court". Non-Muslims: Federal Decree-Law No. 41 of 2022 on Civil Personal Status, in force since 1 February 2023 (summary by Trowers & Hamlins); Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court wills registration (Gulf News, January 2026). Guidance only, not a legal ruling or fatwa: the personal status court decides.