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Will means ordering, advising, promising or giving property after death. A gift or contribution by a person to another person or party after he has died whether the words of the will are spoken or not. According to the Syafie sect, a will is the granting of a right that can be exercised after the death of the testator, either by using words or not. 

Wills are legislated through the Qur'anic text, hadith, the practice of companions and consensus. At the beginning of Islam, a person is ordered to make a will to both parents and the closest relatives as Allah s.w.t. says in surah al-Baqarah verse 180 which means: 

"It is obligatory upon you, when someone among you comes (signs) of death, if he leaves a lot of property, (he should) make a will for his parents and relatives in a good way (according to religious rules), as an obligation on  pious people". 

However, most of the companions, including Saidina Abu Bakar, Ali, Ibn Umar and the four Sunni schools, including Imam Syafie, believe that this obligatory law has been abolished with the revelation of the verses of al-Mawarith (verses 11, 12 and 176 of surah al-Nisa'), which is a sentence that specifically touches on the allocation of the parts that have been set on the heirs in the division of the inheritance.  Therefore, the mandatory order has been repealed, but the act of will becomes an act that is encouraged (circumcision) still remains and preferably the will should be for poor families or orphans who are not entitled to inheritance. 

The word of Allah S.W.T which means: "O you who believe, when one of you is facing death, while he is about to make a will, then let (the will) be witnessed by two righteous people among you or two people of a different religion from you, if you are on a journey ahead  the earth and you are in danger of death" (surah al-Ma'idah verse 106) 

There are also hadiths that encourage a person to make a will. In a hadith narrated by Ibn Umar that the Prophet s.a.w said which means: 

"There is no right (should) for a Muslim who has something that can be bequeathed to be left for two nights unless his will is written on his side" (Hadith narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim). 

The Prophet s.a.w said which means: 

"Whoever dies leaving a will then he dies on the one path and follows the Sunnah and he dies as a person of piety and shahadah and dies with his sins forgiven" (Hadith narrated by Ibn Majah).

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