Is it permissible for a person to accept a gift if he knows that it was stolen?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. He says: If a person works in a company and takes some of the company's tools without the knowledge of its owners, and then gives them as a gift to another person. This person to whom it was given knows that it was stolen. Is it permissible for the second person, to whom it was given, to take it? And if this second person gives it to a third person, and this third person knows its source and that it was stolen, is it permissible for him to take it? And he says that the sin falls on the first person who works in this company, and that there is no sin on them.
Answer:
This is a statement that is not permissible and the action is invalid. If one knows that this wealth is usurped, stolen, or taken without right, it is not permissible for a Muslim to accept it as a gift, nor to buy it from its possessor; because he is not its owner, and because he is a wrongdoer. Therefore, it is not permissible to accept it. Rather, it is obligatory to return it to its rightful owner and its possessor. The sin is not limited to the thief or the usurper, but it extends to whoever participated with him in it and approved him in this action, and accepted this gift, knowing that it is a gift from forbidden wealth, so it is forbidden. Yes.
May Allah reward you. He says: If a person works in a company and takes some of the company's tools without the knowledge of its owners, and then gives them as a gift to another person. This person to whom it was given knows that it was stolen. Is it permissible for the second person, to whom it was given, to take it? And if this second person gives it to a third person, and this third person knows its source and that it was stolen, is it permissible for him to take it? And he says that the sin falls on the first person who works in this company, and that there is no sin on them.
Answer:
This is a statement that is not permissible and the action is invalid. If one knows that this wealth is usurped, stolen, or taken without right, it is not permissible for a Muslim to accept it as a gift, nor to buy it from its possessor; because he is not its owner, and because he is a wrongdoer. Therefore, it is not permissible to accept it. Rather, it is obligatory to return it to its rightful owner and its possessor. The sin is not limited to the thief or the usurper, but it extends to whoever participated with him in it and approved him in this action, and accepted this gift, knowing that it is a gift from forbidden wealth, so it is forbidden. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5582- هل يجوز للشخص قبول الهدية إذا علم أنها مسروقة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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