If its oil is mixed with the oil of another, is it consumption or partnership?

The questioner : If oil is mixed with oil.

The Shaykh : What do you have, O Abdullah, regarding mixing?

The questioner : From where it was, or is it a partnership? In this issue, there are two narrations. The explicit text in the narration of Abdullah and Abu al-Harith is that it is a partnership, and Ibn Hamid and the Qadi chose this in his disagreement. He chose in *al-Mujarrad* that it is consumption.

The Shaykh : This is the difference between consumption and mixing. And between buying, first, if we say it is consumption, then we say he gives him the equivalent of his oil from another place. And if we say it is a partnership. If we say it is a partnership, it means that he has his share of the same oil. For example, I have a sa' of oil and you have a sa' of oil, and my sa' mixed with your sa'. If we say it is consumption, he gives you from another oil, a sa' of another oil. And if we say it is a partnership, he gives you from this oil, and he does not have the right to give you from another oil except with your consent, and Allah knows best.

The questioner : Oil with my oil.

The Shaykh : So Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) held that the scrupulousness is to abstain from it. I give it in charity. The reason for that is that the lawful has been mixed with the unlawful, and that is its meaning.