The Ruling on the Obligation of Bearing and Delivering Testimony

The questioner:
We discussed at the beginning of the session the concealment of testimony and the witnesses between two opposing parties. Many of them are deserving of severe censure for concealing it. As for false testimony, we have already warned you about it and its danger. However, many who possess testimony do not deliver it, believing that they are at ease in concealing it, and perhaps no one else possesses it.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
A solution to the direction.

The Shaykh:
It was previously stated that if there is no other witness, it becomes obligatory for him to bear the testimony and obligatory for him to deliver it. It becomes obligatory for him to bear it if there is no one else to bear the testimony, and it becomes obligatory for him to deliver it if there is no one else to deliver the testimony, so that rights are not lost. However, if there is someone else who bears or delivers it, it does not become obligatory for him. Yes.