The 83-year old mother of the late minister Jamaluddin Jarjis is seeking her share of her son's estate, which is said to be worth at least RM2.1 billion.

Aminah Abdullah, who now resides in Setiawangsa, wants the Syariah Court to issue a faraid (Islamic wealth distribution) certificate for this in the petition she filed in March this year.

This is for the court to recognise that she is one of the rightful claimants – along with Jamaluddin’s widow and her four children – and that the assets are rightly distributed.

Aminah, in her petition, listed landed properties – including houses in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and in the United States – as part of the estate. The estate also includes shares owned by the late minister and those purportedly given to her grandchildren

In total, the assets comprise 22 landed properties, mostly in Pahang and in the Klang Valley, 21 bank accounts with a total sum of more than RM15 million – including one account in the US – and shares in 15 companies.

Under Islamic law, if a deceased does not leave a will, the mother is entitled to receive one-sixth of the decedent's estate, while his widow gets one-eighth and the children are to receive the remainder.

The matter came up for case management at the Syariah High Court in Kuala Lumpur today. Aminah is represented by senior lawyer Kamar Ainiah Kamaruzzaman (right in photo).

Aminah was married to Jamaluddin's father, who was formerly the Pahang police chief, before their divorce in 1954. Upon her divorce, Aminah raised Jamaluddin on her own before she remarried and had two more children.

Today, Aminah, who is wheelchair bound, came with her son, Mohamed Najeb Ali, and her daughter.

Kamar Ainiah told reporters they met the Syariah High Court registrar along with lawyer Shamsuriah Sulaiman, who is representing the widow, Kalsom Ismail, and her children's lawyer, Zuri Zabuddin Budiman.

The widow and her children applied to intervene in Aminah's application, which was not objected to by Kamar Ainiah. Following that, they were given intervener status.

The Syariah High Court then fixed Sept 13 for further case management.

Jamaluddin, the former Rompin MP, was said to be a close confidant of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and had held various cabinet posts. He and several others, including Najib's private secretary, Azlin Alias, died in a helicopter crash on April 4, 2015.

The report on the investigation into the helicopter crash said it was the result of pilot negligence.

This is reputedly one of the largest claims for faraid in the history of Malaysian syariah law.