Al-Sayyid Al-Allamah Al-Hujjah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah Awad al-Mu’ayyidi May Allah preserve him

Question: Two partners have a jointly owned farm. One of them consumes from its fruits and benefits, while his partner remains silent and says nothing about it. After a time, the partner comes and demands from his fellow the value...

Question: It sometimes happens in a customary partnership that one of the two partners sells something without asking his partner’s permission. Is that sale valid for the entirety (of the property)? Or is it valid only for the seller’s share?This...

Question: Two partners in a business agreed and mutually consented that one of them would carry out some work that required incurring financial loss, and they stipulated conditions between them in this agreement. Then the one who undertook the work...

Question: A man sold land and included his partners, and the sale was concluded on that basis. Then, after a long time—after houses had been built on that land and the land had been revived with trees—some of the partners...

Question: A man forgave another man the remainder of a debt. They remained for a period thereafter, and a dispute arose. The man [who had forgiven] said: “It is true I forgave you, but I am claiming my brother’s share...

Question: If a man has several children—some of them grown and self-sufficient through their earnings, and some of them young and not earning—does the father have the right to give to the younger ones and not to the older ones?...

Question: A man has grown sons who work with their father in agriculture and trade, and their father is the authority over them and the one who disposes (of affairs). They acquired assets during their joint venture, then they disagreed...

Question: Is it permissible for a person to take a pair similar to his shoes when the shoes have become mixed and confused—as happens in some large mosques and public gatherings, and as in the Sacred Mosque? Or is one...

Question: A man gave another money to buy and sell with, with the profit between them half-and-half and the loss half-and-half. What is the ruling?

Question: A man owns, for example, a pharmacy. He hands it over to someone as muḍārabah after inventorying it, and he asks him for twenty thousand riyals per month, for example, as profit. What is the ruling?