Fatwas Archive

Question: A man holds yields endowed for the Meccan pigeons amounting to about five hundred Saudi riyals. He does not trust handing them to the waqf officials in Mecca or to anyone else, and the Meccan pigeonry is, in general,...

Question: There is a jarbah (field) endowed to the pigeons of Mecca. We have observed that the pigeons of Mecca are well-provided for by the grain pilgrims and visitors throw them throughout the year. Is it valid and permissible to...

Question: There is a mosque in a ruined village where no one prays, and it has money. What should the guardian do with the waqf funds that have piled up?

Question: What is the ruling on transferring a waqf from one man to another by sale—not a sale of the waqf corpus itself, but a sale of the yad (hand/possession right)?

Question: A pious, poor man with weak eyesight and dependents purchased a plot of land, developed it, and built a house on it to live in with his family. Many years later, he was informed that the land he had...

Question: We have endowed books, all of them manuscript volumes weakened by age. They were originally endowed upon a learned person from the progeny (al-dhurriyyah) and upon a righteous seeker of knowledge. In our time, all those endowed books have...

Question: A mosque has endowments, and the mosque needs major repairs, but those funds have no yield due to lack of rainfall or insufficient harvest. Is it permissible to sell something from those endowed properties in order to repair the...

Question: A man sold a waqf jarbah; after some time he regretted it and wished to be rid of what he had done. The jarbah is now in the hand of a man who has built upon it and is...

Question: Is it permissible for me to purchase some of the soil of a waqf jarbah?

Question: We have a waqf jarbah (field). We have moved soil from it to form an equivalent jarbah next to it, and that place had been a hill. Is what has been formed considered waqf or not?