Sunday, 5 April 2026 (17 Shawwal 1447 AH)
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?
Answer—and Allah is the One who grants success: This muḍārabah is an invalid muḍārabah. Whatever profit occurs in it belongs to the owner, and the worker is due wages for his work—whether profit is realized or not. This is what is required when a dispute arises.
If he has been giving him twenty thousand per month, then if that amount is less than or equal to the profit, it is permissible; but if it exceeds the profit, the excess beyond the profit is not permissible, because it is ribā. Thus said the jurists of the madhhab, as in the marginalia on Sharḥ al-Azhār.
Source: Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.2