This locus gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
MEN SHALL HAVE A SHARE of what parents and close relatives leave behind …
Brief reading
These verses here serve to establish the priority of the bequest as a sphere that takes the heirs’ circumstances into account and does not reduce the division to inherited custom.
Axes
- Legislative
- Humanitarian and ethical
Related concepts
- Bequest: 2
- Protection of offspring: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to the concept of the bequest as an entry point for protecting offspring before the discussion turns to inheritance.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 1
Pages in the atlas that refer to this verse
These links bring together the pages that rely on the verse or make it part of the argument within the atlas.
Related structural theses
- Circles of the nearest kin in the bequest
- Categories of beneficiaries of the bequest who are not heirs
Places of use
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought, p. 30: makes it the basis of his priority of the bequest, as it allows the testator to take the heirs’ circumstances into account before the division of the inheritance.
- Concept: bequest
- Function of the verse here: establishing
- Textual evidence: «- {MEN SHALL HAVE A SHARE…} (An-Nisa 7–9)»
- Countervailing traditional reading: jurisprudence abrogates the verses of the bequest by the hadith “No bequest for an heir”
Related books
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