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Brother who has asked his name to be withheld from California

emails that he has inherited a certain amount of wealth from his father who recently passed away

Now his father was a business man who had many businesses and

The man says this person says that I know that not all of his businesses were halal especially in his earlier years

He would deal with Riba and he sold Haram products meaning the father would have Haram businesses and

The son says there is no doubt that a portion of the wealth that he earned is Haram

However now that my father has passed away and this money is coming to me

Does that make the money halal for me? That is the question we're gonna do with in the first part of our session today

and

And when one can rephrase it basically and that is that does

how long money become halal when it transfers the ownership from a deceased person to the

inheritors. First, let us begin by saying the default. The default is that when one inherits

money, that one does not have to ask about where this money came from, one does not have to go

back to the tax receipts and to go back 10, 20, 30, 40 years, you do not have to do any research.

If a deceased relative has left you money, it's not your obligation to find out. So for example,

if you find out your uncle has passed away and you are the inheritor or he left a deceased relative

left for you one third of his wealth, which is of course completely halal in Islam, it's not your

obligation to find out what was his occupation. Where did he earn every single penny from? On the

contrary, the default is that when there is no suspicion, you don't raise any suspicion.

And in fact, this is the unanimous consensus of all the scholars of Islam. Imam Al-Nawawi,

the famous scholar of the Shafari school, remarks, excuse me, in his majmur, volume 9 of page 428.

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