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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is there a sin on the one who works in riba (usury or interest) banks?

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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh. I am an employee at one of the banks, and I receive a monthly salary, and I do not deal in riba (usury or interest). Is there any blame on me for working in this bank?

Answer:
As for the wording of the hadith, Jabir says that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
the one who consumes Riba, the one who pays it, the one who writes it downآكل الربا وموكله وكاتبه
Sunan an-Nasa'i 5103Hasan (Darussalam)
and its witness. The writer and the witness are helpers. He writes the account, he writes the transfer, he writes such and such. He is a helper. Never work in the bank. Leave the bank entirely. Do not work with them, and do not help them. Not as a witness, not as a writer, not as an accountant, not as a sweeper, not as a gatekeeper, not as a guard. And the ruling is: perhaps they will be stopped. Perhaps they will be stopped. Allah is better and more successful. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 176 هل هناك إثم على من يعمل بالبنوك الربوية؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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