The Ruling on Buying an Item That Comes with a Gift
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: What is the ruling on purchasing an item that comes with a gift, given that its price is not different from its price in the market?
Answer:
By Allah, this is one of the matters where these commercial competitions, gifts, and incentives have occurred; they intend them to promote their goods and attract customers. If you bought it with the intention of this, it is not permissible for you to take it. However, if you bought it wanting the item and not wanting the gift, and you only found the gift after you had bought it, then it is yours, or you may give it in charity. But if you are buying it in order to take this prize, or in order for your name to appear in the competition and the drawing, this is forbidden and not permissible, and it is consuming wealth unjustly. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: What is the ruling on purchasing an item that comes with a gift, given that its price is not different from its price in the market?
Answer:
By Allah, this is one of the matters where these commercial competitions, gifts, and incentives have occurred; they intend them to promote their goods and attract customers. If you bought it with the intention of this, it is not permissible for you to take it. However, if you bought it wanting the item and not wanting the gift, and you only found the gift after you had bought it, then it is yours, or you may give it in charity. But if you are buying it in order to take this prize, or in order for your name to appear in the competition and the drawing, this is forbidden and not permissible, and it is consuming wealth unjustly. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 29 — archive.org (21:24)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.