The Certified Check and the Receipt of the Price in a Salam Sale
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is receiving a certified check considered receiving the price in a salam sale?
Answer:
What is the apparent ruling? They issue a fatwa that it is receipt, saying that a certified check is in the position of receipt, but this has not become apparent to me, because a check is merely a piece of paper, a paper like a check or a document only; it is not receipt. Receipt is receiving the dinars, it is receiving the dirhams. Receiving a piece of paper, if the paper is lost, the dirhams are not lost for him. But if he receives the dirhams and they are lost, they are lost for him. As for if he receives the check and it is lost, nothing is lost for him; the dirhams are not lost for him. This indicates that it is merely a piece of paper. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is receiving a certified check considered receiving the price in a salam sale?
Answer:
What is the apparent ruling? They issue a fatwa that it is receipt, saying that a certified check is in the position of receipt, but this has not become apparent to me, because a check is merely a piece of paper, a paper like a check or a document only; it is not receipt. Receipt is receiving the dinars, it is receiving the dirhams. Receiving a piece of paper, if the paper is lost, the dirhams are not lost for him. But if he receives the dirhams and they are lost, they are lost for him. As for if he receives the check and it is lost, nothing is lost for him; the dirhams are not lost for him. This indicates that it is merely a piece of paper. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 053-السلم والرهن والقرض - 9-8-23 هـ — archive.org (1:16:00)
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