Accepting a gift after a period of time following intercession, and the hadith on the gate of riba
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I interceded for a person, and after two years he gave me a gift, which I accepted. He says: Does this hadith apply to me, given that the gift was given after two years?Bulugh al-Maram 7:77
Answer:
Yes, it applies to you if the gift was given for the sake of the intercession, even if it was after a period of time. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I interceded for a person, and after two years he gave me a gift, which I accepted. He says: Does this hadith apply to me, given that the gift was given after two years?
Whoever intercedes for his brother and that one gives him a gift for that (intercession) which he accepts, he has engaged in one of the most terrible types of Riba (undeserving increase in something).
من شفع لأحد شفاعة فأهدى له هدية فقبلها، فقد أتى بابا عظيما من الرباAnswer:
Yes, it applies to you if the gift was given for the sake of the intercession, even if it was after a period of time. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 07-07-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (56:38)
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