Leaving a Will: Liability for Religious Dues When Proof of Prior Payment Exists

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Leaving a Will: Liability for Religious Dues When Proof of Prior Payment Exists

English:

Question #1852:

An inheritor can provide a proof, by way of a receipt or a testimony that the testator has paid an amount of money as religious tithes. Should the inheritor still be liable to pay the religious tithes of the estate?

Answer #1852:

The existence of a receipt or a testimony of witnesses that the deceased was paying religious tithes is not a legal proof of a disclaimer that he did not owe any religious tithes. If he declared that such tithes were still outstanding, or the inheritors came to such a conclusion, it is obligatory on them to clear what the deceased had admitted to, or they themselves have concluded to be the case, by catering for it from the whole estate. Of course, they are not required to pay anything else.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Leaving a Will