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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Disposing of a lost item that has been held for a long time

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Question:
I am in front of the Al-Uqari Mosque, and I am one of its congregation. I found a gold bracelet worth approximately five hundred riyals. It remained with me for a period of time, and I did not count the days. What is the method you see for announcing it? Also, one of them gave me

Answer:
If the period is long and a year has passed, announcing it is of no benefit; because its owner has despaired of it, and he does not search for it after such a long time. So this money becomes one of the lost monies, it becomes one of the lost monies. And you are between two things: either you pay it to the public treasury, meaning you go to the court and submit it to the court's public treasury if they accept it, or you sell it and give its price in charity to the needy. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 27 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|البيوع|باب اللقطة|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:16:32)

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