He—may Allah have mercy on him—was asked about two trustees:

“May they divide the property under their supervision so that each supervises only his own half?”

He answered:

“They may act only jointly in administering all the property entrusted to their supervision. If either were to act independently, that would be impermissible; how much less permissible, then, to divide what is a single whole! Islamic law provides for bringing together what is dispersed through partition and pre-emption. How, then, can what is united be divided?”

He was asked:

“Someone established an endowment and stipulated an allowance and a stipend for its trustee, just as he stipulated for the designated person and the jurists. Should the trustee be given priority in receiving his allotted remuneration or not?”

He answered:

“The wording mentioned contains nothing that entails giving him priority in receiving any remuneration. Rather, he is mentioned using the conjunction ‘and,’ which signifies shared inclusion and combination without specifying any order. If, however, there is independent evidence, apart from the aforementioned stipulation, establishing that preferential allocation and priority are permissible: