Schools of thought (madhabs)
Maliki inheritance
Dominant in North and West Africa. Historically reluctant to apply Radd; agrees with Shafi'i on the shared-sibling case.
The Maliki school is dominant across North Africa and West Africa, with deep roots in the practice of the people of Madinah. Its inheritance rulings broadly track the General/majority opinion, with a couple of historical wrinkles around Radd.
Distinctive Maliki positions
Historical reluctance to apply Radd
Classical Maliki authorities preferred that surplus inheritance — when fixed shares total less than the estate and there's no residuary — go to the public treasury (Bayt al-Mal) rather than be redistributed among the fixed-share heirs. In modern practice, where the treasury isn't organised to receive estates, Maliki scholars apply Radd the same way the other schools do. FairShare follows the contemporary practice.
Joins Shafi'i on Musharakah and Grandfather
Maliki sides with Shafi'i and Hanbali (against Hanafi) on the Musharakah case — full siblings join maternal half-siblings in their 1/3 share. Same alignment on the grandfather-with-siblings case: the grandfather shares with the siblings rather than blocking them.
What it shares with the others
The six fixed fractions, the blocking chain, Awl, and Umariatan — Maliki agrees with the majority on all of these.