Is a contract valid if gold veins are discovered and the employer then offers the excavator a fixed price (one dinar) to extract the gold?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Reviving Dead Land

Book 26 · Issue 2 · Bab 1

Open in Qurani

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A subsequent offer to pay one dinar for extracting the discovered gold is invalid because the work required (extraction of the gold) becomes unknown or indeterminate (majhul).