Inheritance in the trusteeship of a mosque

Question

There is an old, well-known small mosque. Appropriate alterations and additions have been made to the mosque building whenever needed. According to the common custom, only the money of ordinary Muslims has been spent on building the mosque and thereafter on the needs of the mosque. The mosque building stands on waqf land held under a land deed in the name of a certain respected Qadi, and for about 23/22 years the imam of this mosque was one of the heirs of the waqif (endower).

Answer

If the mosque was built with personal money on land given as waqf, permission was given to ordinary Muslims, and the adhan, the five daily prayers in congregation and the Jumu‘a prayer began to be held there, with no restriction on anyone, and in the Department of Awqaf too it is registered precisely as a mosque, then it is undoubtedly a mosque in the Shar‘i sense: inheritance…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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