Selling a sacrificial animal to others without the partners’ permission

Question

Question: Zayd bought a large animal with the money contributed by seven partners, Zayd himself being one of them. When the remaining six were satisfied that the animal had been bought, Zayd took more money from six other people, the seventh being Zayd himself. On the day of Eid al-Adha, without informing the six with whose contributed money the animal had been bought and without their consent, he quietly sacrificed it in the names of those other six from whom he had taken money after the purchase, and in his own…

Answer

Zayd took money from six people and bought the animal with their permission and consent, so now all seven people became its owners. In the Sacred Law it is not permissible for him to sell the shares of those six people to anyone, because those six people did not give Zayd the authority to sell their shares.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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