Selling the Forbidden and Benefiting from Its Price

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible to sell what is forbidden and benefit from its price?

Answer:
It is not permissible, for Allah in the authentic hadith . So it is not permissible to sell intoxicants, to sell tobacco, to sell qat, to sell hashish and narcotics; everything that is forbidden, its price is forbidden. This is a rule: . As for the Jews, when fats were forbidden to them—meaning, the reason for this hadith is that when the fats of carrion were forbidden to the Jews, they rendered them, meaning they melted them. Instead of becoming fats, they became oil. Do you know oil? It became oil. They said, "We did not sell fats; we sold oil." They rendered it and sold it, and they ate its price.

The presenter:
Yes.