Book of Sales and Related Matters

Question: Goods are sold in the market, and the buyer fears they may be looted or stolen. Is it permissible to buy them nonetheless? And if a man has bought something of that nature, what is required of him?

Question: If war and chaos strike a land, and as a result shops, many homes, and other properties are looted, is it permissible to buy items offered for sale from that looting? And if someone has purchased something from that,...

Question: A man sold a house in a valid sale and received the price in full. Thereafter, he removed the water tank on the rooftop, the tank in the courtyard, and dismantled the doors and windows, as well as the...

A question about buying and selling by telephone and taking a deposit (ʿarbūn)?

Question: Is it permissible to sell writing supplies—paper and pens—to an oppressor? Is that considered assistance [in sin]?

Question: A man owns a printing press. May he, for a fee, print for people of false sects?

Question: Disputes are common today over sales of land not yet partitioned among right-holders—what is called selling an undivided share. A seller, out of need for cash, sells 100 ḥabala at 1,000 riyals, because the seller needed 100,000 riyals. The...

Question: A man sold 100 “ḥabala” (measured plots) out of a tract he co-owned with others; the thing sold was an undivided share (mushāʿ), not yet partitioned. He only sold because he needed the cash. The buyer purchased and gave...

Question: Parcels are sold today with the deed stating “the land with its rights,” etc. What rights does that oblige the seller to provide?

Question: Prior judges issued rulings concerning quarries; the madhhab is known not to validate sales of rights, and quarries are rights. What justifies those rulings? Are they valid?