Returning the deposit if the buyer excuses himself from the purchase
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a man gave me a deposit in exchange for a commodity, and then he excused himself from buying the commodity, is it obligatory for me to return this deposit?
Answer:
The deposit is yours if the commodity is subject to a conditional option. If there is a conditional option and he relinquishes the sale, and he has paid you the deposit, then the deposit is yours, because it is in exchange for holding the commodity, in exchange for holding the commodity back from the customers. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a man gave me a deposit in exchange for a commodity, and then he excused himself from buying the commodity, is it obligatory for me to return this deposit?
Answer:
The deposit is yours if the commodity is subject to a conditional option. If there is a conditional option and he relinquishes the sale, and he has paid you the deposit, then the deposit is yours, because it is in exchange for holding the commodity, in exchange for holding the commodity back from the customers. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 15-03-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (1:17:45)
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