Outstanding Installments Owed to a Missing Seller and Khums - Jurisprudential Answers - Miscellaneous Issues, Vol 4

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Question 39

There was an Arab traveling salesman living in Kuwait who sold household furnishings on installments. We bought furniture from him and paid some installments. After the Iraqi army entered Kuwait, the seller no longer came to collect the remaining installments, and after we moved to Iraq we could not find him. I estimated the outstanding amount and gave it as charity with the intention of restoring wrongfully owed rights. Is this sufficient to make the property lawful, and must I pay khums on it if it is used furniture?

Source: Jurisprudential Answers - Miscellaneous Issues, Vol 4; Author: Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan; Question 39; Page Not available; FIQH-MISC-V4-Q039. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗