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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Seizing the property of one of a debtor’s brothers to collect the debt

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The questioner:
Your Eminence, the father. The questioner says: If I come into possession of the money of one of my brothers who is a debtor that I am demanding payment from

The Shaykh:
Oh, Halib.

The questioner:
My brothers who are debtors.

The Shaykh:
the debtor, the brothers of the debtor.

The questioner:
One of the brothers of the debtor I am pursuing for money.

The Shaykh:
to my brothers, the debtors, or to one of the brothers of the debtors.

The questioner:
It is possible he is saying one of the brothers of the debtor.

The Shaykh:
And what about them? The brothers of the debtor, there is nothing on them. You have no claim on them except on the debtor, your creditor. Yes.

The questioner:
And he mentioned, may Allah reward you, in the continuation of my question that they are partners in most of their companies.

The Shaykh:
No, no, you do not take it, as long as it is not his specific money, you do not take it. Yes.
Source شرح عمدة الأحكام، باب النّذر - باب القضاء — islamhouse.com (1:05:06)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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