Dhawu al fara'id
Definition of "Dhawu al fara'id"
Relating to the law of inheritance. These are the people whose shares have been defined in the Qur’an. They are 12 in number: four males: father, grandfather, uterine brothers and husband; and eight females: wife, daughters, son’s daughter, mother, grand- mother, full sister, consanguine sister, uterine sister.