Is it permissible to buy currency with similar numbers for an amount higher than its value?
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is a man who seeks currency with similar numbers and buys it for three times its value. So if the denomination is five hundred riyals, he pays one thousand five hundred riyals. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.
The questioner:
There is a man who seeks currency with similar numbers? Yes.
The Shaykh:
How? Similar numbers? The currency, which is money, is not looked at by its numbers; it is looked at as currency from the precious metals, by which things are sold and bought, and its numbers are not considered. Yes, from such a denomination, from such a denomination, and the ruling applies to it. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is a man who seeks currency with similar numbers and buys it for three times its value. So if the denomination is five hundred riyals, he pays one thousand five hundred riyals. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.
The questioner:
There is a man who seeks currency with similar numbers? Yes.
The Shaykh:
How? Similar numbers? The currency, which is money, is not looked at by its numbers; it is looked at as currency from the precious metals, by which things are sold and bought, and its numbers are not considered. Yes, from such a denomination, from such a denomination, and the ruling applies to it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3573- 4717] هل يجوز شراء العملة ذات الأرقام المتشابهة بزيادة في قيمتها؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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