The ruling on insignificant lost property of small value
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Question:
In his second question he says: I always find amounts of money, ten riyals or five riyals, and I do not know where to take them or what to do with them?
Answer:
Insignificant items are excused. Insignificant items are like a sandal, a stick, ten dirhams, or twenty in Madinah, and in Makkah they are excused, and in every place, because an insignificant item is not pursued by people’s ambition; they do not seek it, nor are they pleased with it, like those who are lenient in it. So it is not obligatory for you to eat it, nor is it obligatory for you to give it in charity to whom you wish, so it is not obligatory to announce it; because it is not worth the effort of announcing and the place of announcement.
In his second question he says: I always find amounts of money, ten riyals or five riyals, and I do not know where to take them or what to do with them?
Answer:
Insignificant items are excused. Insignificant items are like a sandal, a stick, ten dirhams, or twenty in Madinah, and in Makkah they are excused, and in every place, because an insignificant item is not pursued by people’s ambition; they do not seek it, nor are they pleased with it, like those who are lenient in it. So it is not obligatory for you to eat it, nor is it obligatory for you to give it in charity to whom you wish, so it is not obligatory to announce it; because it is not worth the effort of announcing and the place of announcement.
Source
فتاوى الحج ١٤١٠ هـ - ١٦ — archive.org (27:22)
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