The purpose of this paper is to review the practice of wasiyyah (Islamic will) within thecontextual form of Islamic estate planning in Malaysia by means of investigating its variationsacross selected control variables. A survey via questionnaire is carried out on 314respondents in East Malaysia starting from April 2009 until June 2009 using a purposivesampling. Analysis methods namely descriptive and chi-square are employed. The findingsimply that age, employment status, monthly income, amount of inheritance received, healthstatus, having children, adopted children and grandchildren, knowledge, institution, andinheritance law are the significant factors triggering the wasiyyah practice amongrespondents. This study reflects that the attempt to increase wasiyyah practice and theintegration of wasiyyah into Islamic wealth management and financial planning processshould be aggressively made since certain groups of respondents do not realize theconsequences their family would encounter should they die intestate.