Issue No.1993- Committing treachery in deposit is haram and it is one of the major sins, and if a person accepts something for safeguarding, he should not fail in protecting it and whenever the owner of the property demands it, he should return it to him, whether the owner is Muslim or not.
Issue No.1994- Both trustee and the person who deposits some property through trust should be mature and sane. Therefore, if a minor or an insane person deposits some property with someone, it will not be in order. Similarly, one cannot deposit some property with a minor or an insane person. However, a discerning child can accept a deposit with the permission of his legal guardian.
Issue No.1995- If a person accepts something in trust from a minor or an insane person which belongs to them, he cannot return it to them, rather, he should hand it over to their legal guardian, but if it belongs to someone else, he should return it to its owner. In any case, if that property is lost or damaged, he should compensate its substitute. However, if a person notices that there is something in the hand of a minor or an insane person and he fears that it might be lost or damaged, and he takes it from the minor or the insane person and does not fail in looking after it, he will not be responsible if it is lost or damaged.
Issue No.1996- A person who is not able to take care of a deposit should decline to accept it. However, if the owner of that property is in a weaker position than him in taking care of it and if there is no other person available who can look after it better, then there is no problem in accepting it.
Issue No.1997- If a person tells the owner of some property that he is not prepared to look after that property yet the owner of the property leaves it there and goes away and the property perishes, the person who has declined to accept the trust is not responsible for it. However, it is better to look after it if possible.
Issue No.1999- If a person renounces the custody of the property deposited with him and revokes the agreement, he should deliver the property to its owner or his agent or the legal guardian of its owner as quickly as possible, or inform them so that they retrieve their property. Therefore, in case he does not deliver the property to them without proper excuse and does not also inform them and the property perishes he should give its substitute.
Issue No.2000- If a person who accepts a deposit does not have a proper place for keeping it, he should prepare such a place, and should take care of the deposit in a manner that people would say that he has not neglected looking after the deposit, otherwise, if it is lost or damaged, he will be responsible.
Issue No.2001- If a person who accepts a deposit has not been negligent in looking after it, nor has he gone beyond moderation, and then the property unexpectedly perishes, he will not be responsible for it. However, if he deliberately keeps it at a place where it is likely to be stolen, and if the property is thus lost or damaged, he will be responsible for it, unless he did not have a more secure place, and could not deliver it to its owner or give it to someone who could look after it better.
Issue No.2002- If the owner of a property specifies a place for its safekeeping, telling the person who has accepted the deposit, “You will secure the property here, and you will not take it to anywhere else,” the trustee does not have the right to transfer it somewhere else, unless he considers it likely that the object may perish at that place and he knows that the place does not bear any significance for the owner and his only objective in specifying that place was the safety of the property. However, if he does not know the reason why the owner of the property said so, he should not transfer it to another place, and if he does and it is lost or damaged, he should, as an obligatory precaution, give its substitute.
Issue No.2003- If the owner of a property specifies a place for its safe keeping, but does not tell the trustee not to transfer it to any other place, and if the trustee considers it probable that it will perish in that place, he should transfer it to somewhere else which is more secure, and if the property is kept in the first place and it is lost or damaged, he will be responsible.
Issue No.2004- If the owner of a property becomes insane, the trustee should return it immediately to his legal guardian, or inform him so that he retrieves it. In case he does not do so without any valid excuse, and the property is perished, he will be responsible for it, unless his guardian allows the deposit to remain in its place.
Issue No.2005- If the owner of a property dies, the trustee should deliver the deposit to the heirs or inform them to collect it. In case he fails to do so, he is responsible. However, if he does not deliver the property in order to investigate whether the claimants are the right heirs or not, or whether there are other heirs of the deceased, and in the meantime the property perishes, he will not be responsible.
