What is the ruling if a person enters Ihram for one unspecified principal out of two designated people?

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Al-Mughni

Book of Hajj

Book 11 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

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There are two possibilities: first, that it defaults to being valid for the agent himself because neither of the two specified individuals has precedence over the other, which is analogous to the situation where he intended it for both. Second, it is potentially valid for one of the two, as Ihram is valid for an unspecified person, and the agent may then designate which of the two it is for. This latter view was favored by Abu Al-Khattab. If the agent performs the first circuit of Tawaf without designating which principal the Ihram is for, it becomes valid only for himself, and he cannot assign it to either of the two, because Tawaf cannot be performed for an unspecified person.