Leaving a Will: Determining Executor Priority When Multiple Executors Are Named in Order

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Leaving a Will: Determining Executor Priority When Multiple Executors Are Named in Order

English:

Question #1848:

A testator named three different executors in his will as the first, the second, and the third executor. Who among them is considered the executor? Is it the first one or all of them?

Answer #1848:

This depends on the intention of the testator. So, unless it is known from the evidence that they are jointly, or successively, responsible for executing the will, they should reach a consensus to act upon the will jointly.

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