Giving to one daughter and not to the other

Question

Question: (1) My father-in-law has two daughters, both married. My father-in-law and mother-in-law both live with them. Mr ʿAbd al-Sattar holds all the property and enjoys its full benefit. The younger daughter is in my nikah. In the end, on my father-in-law’s advice, my mother-in-law wrote five bighas (a local unit of land area) of land in her own name over to her elder daughter, and thereby deprived her younger daughter of her right. We reckon the loss at about 8 thousand rupees.

Answer

(1) If the father-in-law and the respected mother-in-law gave something to one of their daughters and not to the other, and the aim in this is to harm her for some reason, then they are sinful. However, the other daughter has no right to file a claim or make a demand over this: the right of inheritance arises after the death of the person inherited from, not during his…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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