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Can I write a wasiat for any of my family members?

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Some people think it is permissible to write an Islamic Will (Wasiat) for family members, based on the verse below:

Prescribed for you when death approaches [any] one of you if he leaves wealth [is that he should make] a bequest/wasiat (i.e. Islamic will) for the parents and near relatives according to what is acceptable - a duty upon the righteous. (Surah al-Baqarah 2:180)


The majority (including the four Imams, Abu Hanifah, Maalik, Shafi’e and Ahmad – may Allah have mercy on them) are of the view that it is abrogated by another verse:


لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصيِبٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ الْوَلِدَنِ وَالاٌّقْرَبُونَ وَلِلنِّسَآءِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ الْوَلِدَنِ وَالاٌّقْرَبُونَ مِمَّا قَلَّ مِنْهُ أَوْ كَثُرَ نَصِيباً مَّفْرُوضاً


(There is a share for men and a share for women from what is left by parents and those nearest related, whether the property be small or large ـ a legal share.) (Surah an-Nisaa 4:7)


Ibn Abu Hatim then said, ""It was reported from Ibn `Umar, Abu Musa, Sa`id bin Musayyib, Al-Hasan, Mujahid, `Ata' Sa`id bin Jubayr, Muhammad bin Sirin, `Ikrimah, Zayd bin Aslam and Ar-Rabi` bin Anas. Qatadah, As-Suddi, Muqatil bin Hayyan, Tawus, Ibrahim An-Nakha`i, Shurayh, Ad-Dahhak and Az-Zuhri said that this Ayah (2:180 above) was abrogated by the Ayah about the inheritors (4:7).


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