Leaving a Will: Obligation to Fulfill a Bequest When the Testator Disappears

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Leaving a Will: Obligation to Fulfill a Bequest When the Testator Disappears

English:

Question #1823:

A person asked his father, as a provision in the will, to hire someone to perform prayer and fasting for him. Now, that the person has disappeared, is it obligatory on his father to execute the will?

Answer #1823:

Unless the death of the testator is established in any shar‘ī way or the executor is convinced that this is the case, hiring someone to perform the lapsed prayer and fasting on his behalf is not valid.

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