Returning the Rent When a Lease Contract Is Rescinded Before the End of the Term
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, if a person rents a house for one year for ten thousand, and after six months the lessor asks him to leave for some reason, and the lessee agrees on the basis of rescission (iqalah), is the lessor required to return the full amount, or does he return the value of the remaining period, which is half the term?
Answer:
No, he returns what was paid previously, as for what was deposited
Honorable Shaykh, if a person rents a house for one year for ten thousand, and after six months the lessor asks him to leave for some reason, and the lessee agrees on the basis of rescission (iqalah), is the lessor required to return the full amount, or does he return the value of the remaining period, which is half the term?
Answer:
No, he returns what was paid previously, as for what was deposited
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب القسم — islamhouse.com (1:15:33)
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