The Ruling on Selling via Salam and Distributing Recordings
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man gave one thousand riyals for a salam contract, agreeing that he would be given one hundred kilograms of dates in the month of Rajab. However, the price in the market increased, and he said, "Give me eighty kilograms." Is that permissible?
The Shaykh:
No. He must be given the dates, whether the price of the dates is high or low, at the price he paid in the salam.
The questioner:
And is it considered based on its value, whether it is more or less? Yes. And Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. We are present with the Islamic authority in the school, in the spirit of cooperating in good. We have agreed with the groups that you provide that we sell the cassettes on a consignment basis, such that when the month ends, for example, we bring in the sold cassettes, record the amount, and the remaining cassettes that were not sold. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
If this is in the nature of delivering the recordings and you differ in selling them, there is nothing wrong with it. But if you bought them from the recordings, if you bought them and they became your property, it is not permissible for the sale to be...
The questioner:
The sale is not permissible to be conditional on a fixed condition. No.
The Shaykh:
The sale must be immediate, so this condition in the sale is not valid.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man gave one thousand riyals for a salam contract, agreeing that he would be given one hundred kilograms of dates in the month of Rajab. However, the price in the market increased, and he said, "Give me eighty kilograms." Is that permissible?
The Shaykh:
No. He must be given the dates, whether the price of the dates is high or low, at the price he paid in the salam.
The questioner:
And is it considered based on its value, whether it is more or less? Yes. And Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. We are present with the Islamic authority in the school, in the spirit of cooperating in good. We have agreed with the groups that you provide that we sell the cassettes on a consignment basis, such that when the month ends, for example, we bring in the sold cassettes, record the amount, and the remaining cassettes that were not sold. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
If this is in the nature of delivering the recordings and you differ in selling them, there is nothing wrong with it. But if you bought them from the recordings, if you bought them and they became your property, it is not permissible for the sale to be...
The questioner:
The sale is not permissible to be conditional on a fixed condition. No.
The Shaykh:
The sale must be immediate, so this condition in the sale is not valid.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/82 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (17:38)
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