Book of Lease (Ijārah)

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?

Question: There are two partners who own shops and a shared station between them, and they have capital. They agreed that one of them would work in that shared enterprise, with a third of the profit for him in exchange...

Question: A man has a muḍārabah fund with which he has traded for a period, and profits accrued. He withdrew an amount from it, and the owner of the capital withdrew an amount, then the trading continued. After that the...

Question: A man took from another a muḍārabah fund to buy and sell with. Is it permissible, thereafter, for him to take from him some of the money as a loan—to borrow from him to purchase goods for the muḍārabah...

Question: A man gave another a sum for muḍārabah. He sold and bought for a period of time. Then the owner of the capital came and said to the worker: “Buy from me half of the merchandise for such-and-such so...

Question: A man handed money to another to trade with—buying and selling—on the basis of muḍārabah between them. He sold and bought for cash and on credit. One of his clients went bankrupt, so he took from him a promissory...

Question: There may be two neighboring villages. The people of one of them have wide, far-stretching maḥājir, while the people of the other village have no maḥājir; indeed they are very constrained, and the people of the first village permit...

Question: A group lodged a claim against a man’s heirs that their ancestor had consumed from the maḥājir that were shared between him and them more than his portion; he had been the agent for all of them in litigation...