Ruling on selling a restricted endowment if its benefits cease

Your Eminence! A man endowed his house to four of his daughters. After a period of time, this house became ruined and could no longer be used. These daughters are unable to repair it and make use of it. Is it permissible for them to sell it?

First: Let us ask: Did he endow this house to four of his daughters to the exclusion of the others, both male and female?The questioner: He gave the others something else.

The Shaykh: You mean: he satisfied those others! So, the endowment is valid.
If the benefits of this endowment cease, they may sell it and buy something better than it; because the endowment does not extend beyond them.