“Prescribed for you, when death approaches one of you ... is a bequest” (al-Baqarah 2:180).
Some interpreters connected the verse with the later inheritance shares and the report “no bequest for an heir,” treating it as abrogated. An alternative interpretation maintains the force of bequests while distinguishing their legitimate recipients or limits from the compulsory shares owed to heirs.
Establishing fixed inheritance shares and denying every possible function of a bequest are not identical claims. This case illustrates why specification and complete abrogation must not be conflated.