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Abstract
Currently, Malaysia has seven enactments related to wills that have been gazetted by seven states, namely Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Kelantan, Pahang, Sabah, and Perak. There are clauses in six of these enactments that prohibit will to illegitimate children (ATST), while one enactment allows it. Therefore, the objective of this study is to compare the practice of issuing will to ATST across seven enactments in Malaysia. It also seeks to examine the inheritance rights of ATST based on legal sources in Islamic law, as well as the perspectives of scholars on this issue. The discussion begins with the definition of illegitimate child, followed by a comparison of the seven state enactments on this issue. Next, the related Shariah issues are summarized with a discussion from the perspective of legal reasoning and the presentation of the views of Islamic jurists (fuqaha). The selected view is summarized and concluded at the end of the discussion. This study primarily employs the library research method for data collection and analyzes the data using descriptive, deductive, and comparative approaches. The study concludes that the provision allowing bequest to ATST is the most accurate. This is in line with traditional jurisprudence debates in various schools of thought that do not specifically prohibit ATST from receiving wills. However, ATST are subject to the same other conditions as other will recipients.
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