The Ruling on Lost Property

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. He says: Please guide me. If I find something dropped, or something on the ground belonging to someone else, and I do not know its owner, how should I handle it, given the situation described? Especially if I am unable to describe it. Will I be sinful if I leave it where it is? Please guide me. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If this money that you found is of value and has standing, it is considered lost property, and the rulings of lost property apply to it. If you trust yourself to keep it safe and fulfill the duty of describing it, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded, then you take it and do what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded regarding describing it and calling out about it for a period of one year. You may appoint someone to call out about it and describe it in gatherings of people, or announce it in the newspapers in the present time, so that its owner learns of it and comes, if its owner is present, or searches for it. As for if you do not trust yourself and do not fulfill the duty of describing it, then you leave this money and do not take responsibility for it upon yourself. Yes.