Definition & Evidence

**Definition:** Authorizing someone else to act in one's place in matters that accept deputization. **Evidence from Quran:** - **Quran:** "Send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city" [18:19] - **Quran:** "Zakah is only for the poor, the needy, and those employed to collect it" [9:60] - permitting working on it, which is by way of deputization for the recipients **Evidence from Sunnah:** - **Hadith of Jabir رضي الله عنه:** "I intended to go to Khaybar, and the Prophet ﷺ said: 'When you come to my agent, take fifteen wasq from him...'" [Abu Dawud, Daraqutni] - **Hadith of 'Urwah ibn al-Ja'd:** "The Prophet ﷺ was offered some livestock, so he gave me a dinar and said: 'O 'Urwah, go to the livestock and buy us a sheep...'" [Bukhari] **Consensus:** Muslims have agreed on the permissibility of agency in general, because the need calls for it. Since not everyone can do everything he needs himself, the need arose for its legality.