The ruling on lost money after a year of announcing it
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Question:
He says: If a person finds a lost item and it has been with him for three years and he does not know whose it is, what should he do with it?
Answer:
If he took it, identified its distinguishing characteristics, and announced it for a year, it becomes his property. If he identified it by its characteristics for a year and no one came forward for it, it becomes his property, provided that if its owner comes, he hands it over to him. Otherwise, he benefits from it and does not let this money go to waste. Yes.
He says: If a person finds a lost item and it has been with him for three years and he does not know whose it is, what should he do with it?
Answer:
If he took it, identified its distinguishing characteristics, and announced it for a year, it becomes his property. If he identified it by its characteristics for a year and no one came forward for it, it becomes his property, provided that if its owner comes, he hands it over to him. Otherwise, he benefits from it and does not let this money go to waste. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/061 — archive.org (11:33)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.