Fatwas Archive

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?

Question: Is it permissible to enter a “lottery”?

Question: A man buys fuel at a station; the attendant sometimes sells to some customers “behind the meter.” Later the buyer who purchased that way regrets it and wants to clear his liability. What is due from him?

Question: What is the evidence for stipulating that the item sold be specified, without stipulating the same for the price?

Question: What is the evidence that indicates dividing sales into valid, corrupt, and void; and (the evidence) for the establishment of “option” (khiyār) in some sales? And what is the difference between that which entails corruption and that which entails...