Disposing of money taken from missing neighbors
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Question:
The questioner says: When I was young, I took money and rights belonging to my neighbors forty years ago when we were children. Now, Shaykh, I do not know them, and they have moved away from our house and our old neighborhood. What should I do?
Answer:
If you do not know them and it is difficult to return the money to them, then you dispose of it by giving it in charity with the intention that the reward belongs to its owners, and you thereby rid yourself of it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: When I was young, I took money and rights belonging to my neighbors forty years ago when we were children. Now, Shaykh, I do not know them, and they have moved away from our house and our old neighborhood. What should I do?
Answer:
If you do not know them and it is difficult to return the money to them, then you dispose of it by giving it in charity with the intention that the reward belongs to its owners, and you thereby rid yourself of it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/024 — archive.org (10:23)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.