Lending mobile phone top-up cards
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The questioner:
Some people say that one lends mobile phone recharge cards, on the condition that the borrower sells them and then returns the price to him later at a higher value than their worth. What is the ruling? Some people lend mobile phone recharge cards.
The Shaykh:
What kind of cards? Cards
The questioner:
for mobile phones.
The Shaykh:
He lends the cards and he returns cards like them to him, that is fine. Or he sells him the cards for a spot price or a deferred price, that is fine. Because this is a commodity; either he sells it, or he lends him cards for cards, that is fine. Yes.
Some people say that one lends mobile phone recharge cards, on the condition that the borrower sells them and then returns the price to him later at a higher value than their worth. What is the ruling? Some people lend mobile phone recharge cards.
The Shaykh:
What kind of cards? Cards
The questioner:
for mobile phones.
The Shaykh:
He lends the cards and he returns cards like them to him, that is fine. Or he sells him the cards for a spot price or a deferred price, that is fine. Because this is a commodity; either he sells it, or he lends him cards for cards, that is fine. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب كيف النهوض إلى الثانية وما جاء في جلسة الاستراحة — islamhouse.com (1:09:21)
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