Issue No. 1597- If a person buys a crop or an orchard before zakāt becomes obligatory on it, the new owner should pay its zakāt, but if he buys it after zakāt becomes obligatory on it, the seller (previous owner) should pay its zakāt.
Issue No.1805- It is not permissible to sell a commodity which is purchased through in-advance payment before the expiry of the stipulated period of delivery. However, there is no harm in selling it after the expiry of the stipulated period, even though it is not delivered to the buyer yet.
Issue No.155- There is no problem in selling or lending a najis object and there is no need to inform the recipient about it. However, in the case that one knows the recipient is going to use it for eating or for prayer and the like, it would be necessary, as an obligatory precaution, to inform him about it. Similarly, if a borrowed objet becomes najis, the borrower should inform the lender under the aforementioned circumstances when returning it.
Issue No. 1564- If a dhimmī sells a piece of land purchased from a Muslim, to another Muslim, he is not absolved from the responsibility of paying khums. The same goes, as an obligatory precaution, if he (the dhimmī) dies and a Muslim inherits that land from him. And if at the time of purchasing land the dhimmī stipulates that he will not pay khums or that the payment of khums will be the responsibility of the seller, the condition imposed by him is not valid, and he should pay khums. In case however, he lays down the condition that the seller should pay khums “on his behalf” it is necessary for the seller to act according to this condition.
Issue No.833- If a mosque is demolished, it is not permissible to sell it, or to make it a part of a property, or a road. It is even haram to sell the doors, windows and other parts of the building of the mosque and in case the mosque becomes dilapidated, all materials should be used for the repairs of the same mosque. In case, however, they are no longer useful for that mosque, they should be used in other mosques, and if also they cannot be used in other mosques, they must be sold and the sale proceeds should be used for that very mosque, if possible. If however, it is not possible it should be spent on the repair of another mosque.
Issue No.1993- Committing treachery in deposit is haram and it is one of the major sins, and if a person accepts something for safeguarding, he should not fail in protecting it and whenever the owner of the property demands it, he should return it to him, whether the owner is Muslim or not.
Issue No. 1348- If a person who is fasting knows that if he sleeps during the daytime he will have a seminal discharge during sleep, it is permissible for him to sleep during the day, and in case there is a discharge, his fast does not become void.
Issue No.615- One can send a reliable person in search of water, and it is sufficient if one person goes on behalf of many.
Issue No.1918- If a person appoints someone in another city as his agent, and gives him power of attorney (POA) and he accepts it, the agency is in order, even if the power of attorney reaches the agent after some time. Of course, the agent’s tasks will be in order after he has received the power of attorney and accepted it.
Issue No. 2258- It is haram to eat a part severed from the body of a living animal, irrespective of whether it is fat or flesh.
Issue No. 1504- If a person who along with income, has some other property on which khums is not liable, or from which khums has been paid, it is not necessary for him to separate them although he can spend both and at the end of the khums year he is just obliged to pay khums on the surplus of the property which is not liable to khums or the money on which khums has already been paid.
Issue No. 1430- If a person has to perform qaḍā for Ramadan fasts of several years, he can commence the qaḍā of Ramadan of any year desired. However, if the time for qaḍā fasts of the last Ramadan is short, he should as an obligatory precaution, perform qaḍā fast of the last one.
