Is it permissible to give lost property to those in need?

Question:
This person asks that after he had finished his 'Umrah, while walking in the street, he found coins lying on the street. He picked them up and gave them to people in need.

Answer:
Well, this is the correct action: you take them if their owner is not nearby and you cannot find the owner; you do not know whose they are, and they have no marks. They are coins from a purse, or they have no clear marks, so you give them to the poor. Yes. But if the coins were in a purse or in a bag, or if these are lost items, these are lost items, you must identify them. If their owner comes and describes them, you give them to him. But as long as they have no marks by which they can be identified, and their owner is far away and you do not know him, give them to the poor.