This matter falls into various categories. Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi said that their property falls into two categories. One is that which is haram in itself, such as stolen goods and the like. It is not lawful to sell it or buy it if it is goods, nor to eat it if it is food, nor to wear it if it is clothes, nor to accept it as a gift, nor to take it as payment for a debt. Whoever does any of these things is someone who takes illegal possession (ghasib).
The second category is haram to deal with. This occurs in three cases:
- When somone’s property is mostly haram. Dealing with it wich is disliked according to Ibn al-Qasim, and forbidden according to Asbagh.
- The one who has nothing but haram property. If he has no halal property at all, it is haram to deal with him.
- The one who has halal property but has also acquired some haram property which increases his property and which is mixed with the halal property.
- There is disagreement as to whether it is permitted or forbidden to deal with him, and there is a distinction between dealing with him by selling him goods, which is permitted and receiving gifts and their like, which is not permitted.
This is enough to achieve the answer to this point.
O Allah! Show us the true as true and make us follow it! Show us the false as false and make us avoid it!
