The Ruling on Hoarding Goods and Selling Them to Certain Customers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: A grocery store owner holds onto goods that are in short supply in the market and does not sell them to anyone except certain customers, excluding others. Is that permissible for him?
Answer:
If they are luxuries, there is nothing wrong with it. But if they are necessities, he must sell them just as people do. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: A grocery store owner holds onto goods that are in short supply in the market and does not sell them to anyone except certain customers, excluding others. Is that permissible for him?
Answer:
If they are luxuries, there is nothing wrong with it. But if they are necessities, he must sell them just as people do. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 18-07-1438هـ — af.org.sa (1:03:25)
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