Does lending money to one son while forgiving the debt for the others due to their inability to repay the money count as favoring one child over the others in gifts?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
I borrowed a sum of money from my father, and I was unable to repay it, so he forgave the debt. Does this count as favoring one child over the others in gifts?
Answer:
If you are poor and he gave it to you because of your poverty, there is nothing wrong with that, and he is not required to give to the other wealthy children. Yes.
I borrowed a sum of money from my father, and I was unable to repay it, so he forgave the debt. Does this count as favoring one child over the others in gifts?
Answer:
If you are poor and he gave it to you because of your poverty, there is nothing wrong with that, and he is not required to give to the other wealthy children. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل إقراض أحد الأبناء دون البقية ومسامحته فيه لعدم استطاعته رد المال يدخل في تفضيل العطية بين الأولاد — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.