The ruling on calculating compensation for lost goods

The questioner : Shaykh, I am Abu Abd al-Rahman. I want to ask you: If a person takes goods and travels with them by plane, and then the airline loses them. Here, in aviation law, there is a specific amount of money per unit of weight as compensation. Of course, the compensation might end up being more or less than the estimated amount. Now, if this person took these goods to trade in them, does he calculate them by their profit or by their capital? Knowing that he went, for example, and it was difficult for him to the point that he selected them and spent time, then packed them, and the difficulty and annoyance of carrying them with him on the plane, and when he arrived in that country, the airline had lost them.

The Shaykh : Yes, but this.

The questioner : He took them for trade. In this case, if they compensated him and the amount he saw was excessive, does he calculate these goods including their profits, or at the cost price that it cost him in the country where he was?

The Shaykh : Who is going to do the calculation, Hussein? Ah. Ah.

The questioner : It is the same method. They have a law regarding aviation; for example, the law is twenty dollars per kilo or something like that. They had a carton, and the weight, the weight is also such and such, so it comes out to such and such.

The Shaykh : You are far away, you are even further from the answer. May Allah guide you.

The questioner : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : I asked you, who wants to get into these details?

The questioner : But I am just asking in case it is excessive.

The Shaykh : This is the answer.

The questioner : A paper, it is.

The Shaykh : This is the answer, my brother. The answer is that the owner of the goods, where did he go and what did he do, and they do this and they do that, and so on. The matter does not require detail. Who is going to do the calculation? You say the owner of the goods.

The questioner : Yes, yes, meaning he calculates the profits.

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. I am not going to tell you whether he calculates or not. I want to understand who wants to do the calculation, him or the company?

The questioner : Yes, regarding the company, there is a law per kilo and so on, and that is all.

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you, my brother. Did you understand this law? Did you understand this law? It means that it is not the law that does the calculation you are talking about or asking about.

The questioner : We are planting a child.

The Shaykh : This is the answer. May Allah guide you. This is the answer.

The questioner : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : Yes, why does the question come up about this calculation?

The questioner : This calculation? Because he might give an excessive amount.

The Shaykh : Is it his request?

The questioner : Yes, what about the requests?

The Shaykh : Yes, I am telling you, is it his request? Do you understand this Syrian language?

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Okay.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. We got the answer.

The Shaykh : And the same for you.