A tenant building a house on the owner’s land

Question

Question: A man rented a house from the widow of Shaykh Muhammad Khalil. There are other heirs as well, as appears from the attached paper, but after the husband’s death possession is with her son Shaykh Badr al-Hasan, who is from the second husband. There was no place outside the house to sit, so with his permission he built on part of the vacant land in front at his own expense, and kept paying the fixed rent regularly.

Answer

The tenant built the house; he is the owner of the building, and the owners of the land are the heirs of the deceased. Either a rent for the land should be fixed and they keep collecting it from this tenant; or the tenant should be told to remove his building from there and vacate the land; or the landowners should give the tenant the value of whatever materials exist in the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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