Question 1205) - Under what circumstances does the agency dissolve?

A: They are as follows:
1. Death of the principle. 2. His complete insanity (lasting for L year or more. zalai). 3. His leaving for the lands of the Kuffar as an apostate.*. 4. separation of partners where one of the partners was agent for the other. 5. When the Mukatab is unable to fulfil his contract of buying his freedom then the agent he appointed is no longer his agent. 6. Renewal of incapacitation upon a slave who was permitted trade and appointed agent. ln these scenarios the agency terminated whether the agent knows or not. 7.Death of the agent. 8. His (the agents) complete insanity. 9. His leaving for the lands of the Kuffar as an apostate, unless he returns as a Muslim before the decision is passed, then it is as if he never did that and the agent remains upon his agency. 10. The principle personally transacts what he appointed the agent to do.

* if he returns as a Muslim before the decision is passed, then it is as if he never did that and the agent remains upon his agency.

~ al-Quduri ~