Liaison office of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Al Sistani (L.M.H.L) in London, Europe, North and South America.
2737. There are three groups of persons who inherit from a dead
person, on the basis of relationship:
The first group consists of the dead person's parents and children, and
in the absence of children, the grand children, however low, and among them
whoever is nearer to the dead person inherits his property. And as long as
even a single person from this group is present, people belonging to the
second group do not inherit.
The second group consists of paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother,
and sisters, brothers, and in the absence of sisters and brothers their
children, whoever from among them is nearer to the dead person, will inherit
from him. And as long as even one person from this group is present, people
belonging to the third group do not inherit.
The third group consists of paternal uncles and paternal aunts and
maternal uncles and maternal aunts, and their descendants. And as long as
even one person from the paternal uncles and paternal aunts and maternal
uncles and maternal aunts of the dead person is present, their children do
not inherit.
However, if the paternal step uncle and the son of the
real paternal uncle are present, the son of the dead person's real paternal
uncle will inherit from him to the exclusion of the paternal step uncle. But
if there are several paternal uncles and several paternal cousins, or if the
widow is alive, then this rule is not without Ishkal.
2738. If the dead person's own paternal uncle and paternal aunt and
maternal uncle and maternal aunt and their children and their grandchildren do
not exist, the property will be inherited by the paternal uncles and paternal
aunts and maternal uncles and maternal aunts of dead person's parents.
And
if even they do not exist, the property will be inherited by their descendants.
And in the absence of their descendants, the property is inherited by the
paternal uncles and paternal aunts and maternal uncles and maternal aunts of the
dead person's paternal grand parents. And if even they do not exist, the
property is inherited by their descendants.
2739. Husband and wife inherit from each other as will be explained
later.