Leaving a Will: Acting Upon a Lost or Unknown Will When Executor Is Uncertain

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Leaving a Will: Acting Upon a Lost or Unknown Will When Executor Is Uncertain

English:

Question #1845:

A person wrote a will which he kept with him. He got killed in a fire. No one knows the contents of the will. Someone does not know whether he is the only executor or whether there might be another executor as well. What should he do?

Answer #1845:

Having established the will, the executor must act upon those provisions of the will he is certain were not altered in any way and pay no attention to the possibility that another person may be the executor as well.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Leaving a Will