Fatwas Archive

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...

Question: A man took from the debtor’s maḥjar the shares of four liable parties—namely his own share and the shares of three of his sons. After some time, the man wanted to divide those four portions among his three sons...

Question: Does the fusḥah (concession of space) practiced by the people of our lands entail ownership?

Question: If a man has trees in a piece of land, and the water of that land flows to another man’s farm, and all of that has been acknowledged; then a third man comes and claims that he is entitled...

Question: Does a man own the place from which he extracted stones by blasting?