What is the ruling on exchanging currency at a shop without the immediate mutual exchange of the like-for-like amount?
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Question:
It sometimes happens that a taxi passenger does not have the exact amount for the taxi owner and has a larger amount instead. He is forced to go to a shop owner, give him, for example, fifty riyals, and take ten riyals from him to give to the taxi owner, then return to take the rest. What is the ruling on that? Knowing that the immediate mutual exchange of the like-for-like amount did not take place?
Answer:
In currency exchange, he gives the fifty and takes its exchange value of fifty before parting, because this is currency exchange, and it is not permissible to part ways except with the complete mutual exchange from both parties.
It sometimes happens that a taxi passenger does not have the exact amount for the taxi owner and has a larger amount instead. He is forced to go to a shop owner, give him, for example, fifty riyals, and take ten riyals from him to give to the taxi owner, then return to take the rest. What is the ruling on that? Knowing that the immediate mutual exchange of the like-for-like amount did not take place?
Answer:
In currency exchange, he gives the fifty and takes its exchange value of fifty before parting, because this is currency exchange, and it is not permissible to part ways except with the complete mutual exchange from both parties.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم صرف النقود عند محل دون حدوث تقابض المثل في الحال؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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