The Ruling on the Shaykh’s Receipt in a Salam Sale
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The questioner:
Your brother, the Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, asks: Is the receipt of the estimated shaykh considered the receipt of the price in a salam sale?
The Shaykh:
What is the apparent ruling? I differ with the view that it is a grave. We say that the verified shaykh descends into the grave, but this has not appeared for this, because the shaykh is merely a paper. The paper is like a page or like a document only; it is not a matter. The grave is the grave of wealth. The grave is a paper. If a paper is lost, the wealth is not lost with it. But if the wealth is received and then lost, it is lost with it. As for if the shaykh is received and then lost, he does not know about it.
The questioner:
He sells the dirhams on it, selling on the basis that it is a paper.
The Shaykh:
Only.
Your brother, the Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, asks: Is the receipt of the estimated shaykh considered the receipt of the price in a salam sale?
The Shaykh:
What is the apparent ruling? I differ with the view that it is a grave. We say that the verified shaykh descends into the grave, but this has not appeared for this, because the shaykh is merely a paper. The paper is like a page or like a document only; it is not a matter. The grave is the grave of wealth. The grave is a paper. If a paper is lost, the wealth is not lost with it. But if the wealth is received and then lost, it is lost with it. As for if the shaykh is received and then lost, he does not know about it.
The questioner:
He sells the dirhams on it, selling on the basis that it is a paper.
The Shaykh:
Only.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/82 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (6:58)
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