A Request for a Fatwa Related to the Above Question: The Rights of the Parents and Brothers to a Brother’s Savings

Question

(1) Do the mother, father, brothers and sisters have a right in this money or not? (2) Do the brothers have a right in the house he bought or not? (3) Was it permissible for him to separate in this way, when the other brothers are not married and have no employment? (4) Was it permissible (proper) for him to give towards the debt incurred while living in the joint household, or not? (5) If he sells the house, is it permissible for me to take wages for the labour I spent or not? (6)

Answer

(1) If he stole from his mother, father, brothers and sisters, then it all belongs to them; if he earned it himself, then it belongs to the earner himself, and the mother, father and the others have no right in it. However, whatever they spent on him — if they spent it stating that it was a loan — they may take back. And in time of need the maintenance (nafaqa)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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