Ruling on making use of and investing money with which one has been entrusted
Question: 4849
Someone entrusted some money to me and I
made use of this money by investing it. When the owner of the money came, I gave him all
of his money, but I did not tell him how I had made use of it. Was what I did permissible
or not?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
If anyone entrusts something to you, you do not have the
right to use it without his permission… you have to keep it and take care of it in
the manner that is usual. If you make use of it without his permission, you have to seek
his forgiveness. If he forgives you, then all well and good; otherwise you have to give
him the profit made with his money, or try to reach some agreement with him to take half
each, or some other agreement. It is permissible to make agreements and reconcile among
Muslims, except for agreements that make something that is halaal haraam or vice versa.
Source:
Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him), Fataawa islamiyyah, 3/7
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