The Guardian's Responsibility for Animals
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner mentions that she has some animals and birds. She says: We travel to our home in Abha and leave them in Riyadh, and we entrust some of our relatives to take care of them, but they forget. They left them for a period, and some of the birds died of thirst and heat last summer. Is anything required of us?
Answer:
If you entrusted these birds and animals to someone you trust to take care of them, then their responsibility transfers from your charge to the charge of the guardian. If he is negligent, he is the one who commits a sin, while you have no sin upon you; because you were not negligent. It is the agent who was negligent. Yes.
May Allah reward you. This questioner mentions that she has some animals and birds. She says: We travel to our home in Abha and leave them in Riyadh, and we entrust some of our relatives to take care of them, but they forget. They left them for a period, and some of the birds died of thirst and heat last summer. Is anything required of us?
Answer:
If you entrusted these birds and animals to someone you trust to take care of them, then their responsibility transfers from your charge to the charge of the guardian. If he is negligent, he is the one who commits a sin, while you have no sin upon you; because you were not negligent. It is the agent who was negligent. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/042 — archive.org (7:25)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.