The ruling on lost property if the finder spends it and then its owner comes
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, it is forbidden to oppress people in their work, and his companions are not present now. No one has recovered his owner this year, and it was that he understood a sum of money, and he spent this money.
The Shaykh:
They say he must compensate for it when its owner comes one day in the future and asks for it; he pays it to him, because his ownership of it after the announcement is not absolute ownership, but rather conditional ownership, which they call conditional ownership. If its owner comes, he compensates him for it, unless he forgives it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, it is forbidden to oppress people in their work, and his companions are not present now. No one has recovered his owner this year, and it was that he understood a sum of money, and he spent this money.
The Shaykh:
They say he must compensate for it when its owner comes one day in the future and asks for it; he pays it to him, because his ownership of it after the announcement is not absolute ownership, but rather conditional ownership, which they call conditional ownership. If its owner comes, he compensates him for it, unless he forgives it. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من باب الإحرام وما يتعلق به — islamhouse.com (55:32)
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