What is the ruling on one who finds a lost item in Makkah and takes it while ignorant?
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Question:
The questioner is an elderly woman who lives in Makkah. When she was young, she found a coin and took it. Later, she learned that a lost item in Makkah is not permissible to keep. She wants to pay the value of that coin, knowing that its price at the time was thirty-five riyals, and its current value is three hundred and fifty riyals. Does she pay the old price or the current one?
Answer:
She has to choose between two options: if she wishes, she can buy a coin like the one she found, or she can pay its current value, meaning what it is worth now, and hand it over to the authority responsible for lost items in the Haram. That is, the authority responsible for lost items in the Haram; she hands it to them. Yes.
The questioner is an elderly woman who lives in Makkah. When she was young, she found a coin and took it. Later, she learned that a lost item in Makkah is not permissible to keep. She wants to pay the value of that coin, knowing that its price at the time was thirty-five riyals, and its current value is three hundred and fifty riyals. Does she pay the old price or the current one?
Answer:
She has to choose between two options: if she wishes, she can buy a coin like the one she found, or she can pay its current value, meaning what it is worth now, and hand it over to the authority responsible for lost items in the Haram. That is, the authority responsible for lost items in the Haram; she hands it to them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم من وجد لقطة في مكة وأخذها جاهلًا؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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