Praise be to Allah.
Firstly
It seems from your question that your father gave you fifty percent of his company in return for running it. There are two matters to discuss here:
1. If you have siblings, male or female, and he did not give them something like what he gave you, then this is an unfair gift and he should have been equitable in giving. If he died without having done that, then you must include this gift in the estate. Please see the answer to question no. 178463 .
2. If you have no siblings, then we say: This was not purely a gift; rather it was in return for running the business, but when he died the partnership between you and him ended, and the heirs have the right to divide the company or to leave it as it is and appoint someone else to manage it, as we will explain below. If you are no longer able to run the business, then there is no reason for you to keep these shares, because they were in return for running the business.
Secondly:
If one of the two partners dies, the partnership becomes nullified according to the majority of jurists.
Ibn Qudamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Mughni (5/16): A partnership is a permissible kind of contract, and it becomes nullified by the death of one of the partners or if he becomes insane, or if he is deemed legally incompetent, or if one of the partners nullifies it, because it is a permissible contract but will be nullified by the things mentioned above, which is similar to the case of appointment of a proxy. End quote.
In al-Mawsu‘ah al-Fiqhiyyah (39/308) it says: The majority of jurists among the Hanafis, Malikis, Shafa‘is and Hanbalis are of the view that the partnership contract (of whatever type) can be invalidated and nullified, and all commitments connected to it become non-binding, when one of the partners dies. End quote.
The heirs in this case have the right to divide the company or leave it as it is and appoint a manager who is to be paid a salary. They do not have to retain you as manager of the company.
Based on that, the shares that your father gave you go back to the estate, then the heirs have the choice between leaving the company as it is, or dividing it, or appointing a manager for it.
If they decide to leave the company as it is and they accept you as manager and agree to give you half in return for managing the company, as your father did, then they have the right to do that, but it will be a new partnership from the time they make that decision, because the original partnership has been nullified.
And Allah knows best.
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