Matters in which agency is permissible

Question : It is also permissible in all other transactional contracts by analogy to purchase, and in acquiring permissible things, such as reviving dead land and hunting, because this is acquiring wealth through a cause that is not specific to the agent, so agency is permissible in it just as it is in purchase. It is also permissible in the marriage contract.

Answer : As for reviving dead land, there is no doubt that it is permissible for a person to appoint an agent to revive dead land for him, and there is no harm in that. However, in hunting and gathering firewood, a person may be involved, because this is something a person owns through his own action, so it belongs to the one who hunted or the one who gathered. But the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) say there is no harm in it, and his hunting is like agency; in fact, it is agency. Yes.