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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the seller and the lender reclaiming the specific items of their property if they find them with the person whose assets are sequestered

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The questioner : And do the seller and the lender have the right to reclaim the specific items of their property if they find them? There are two views. The first is that they have that right, based on the report, and because he sold them at a time when the contract was void, so his right did not become valid against them, just as if a woman married an insolvent man with her maintenance. The second view is that they have no right to annul the contract, because they entered into the transaction with full knowledge of the debtor's insolvency, which is similar to one who buys a defective item knowing of its defect.

The Shaykh : The correct view is that they may reclaim the specific item of their property. Yes, if they knew that his assets were sequestered, then they were negligent. But if they did not know, and he is a well-known man who buys and sells with people, and then it turns out that his assets are sequestered, they must reclaim their property.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [4538] حكم رجوع البائع والمقرض في أعيان أموالهما إن وجداها عند المحجور عليه - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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