Who bears responsibility when two riders are on an animal?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Beverages (Intoxicants)

Book 53 · Issue 1 · Bab 1

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Responsibility falls upon the first rider because that individual is the one managing the animal and has the capacity to restrain it. This ruling applies unless the first rider is a minor, ill, or similar, and the second rider is in control of managing the animal, in which case responsibility shifts to the second rider.