Delineating the Features of the Property which is Paid to the Agent
Issue No.1932- If a person specifies a property and says, for example, “If anyone finds my horse, I will give him this wheat”, the obligatory precaution is that he should specify its quantity as well as its particulars which are effective in its value, but if he does not specify a property and for example says, “Whoever finds my horse, I will give him 100 kgs of wheat”, he should specify the particulars of the wheat which will be effective in its value. However, if he does not fix a wage for this task and says, “Whoever finds my lost property, I will give him some money or a reward”, the agreement is void. If a person in this case undertakes that task, he should give him wages according to the usual value of this job, unless one can gather from the rewarder’s words that the amount he meant was less than that, in which case, he should give him the intended amount.
