Question 1393) - Is there any condition for the correctness of the waqf according to our three Imams?

A: According to Imaam Abu Hanifah RAH. and Imaam Muhammed RAH. the Waqf is not complete until it is made for a party which does not ever end.* According to Imaam Abu yusuf RAH. if he mentioned a beneficiary which comes to an end then it is correct. It will then pass onto the poor even if he did not mention it.

* Whereby he says "I make this a charity waqf forever for the sake of Allah for the descendants of so-and-so as long as the line continues. If the line ends then it is for the poor,? because there will always be poor.

~ al-Quduri ~