شراء المتصدق صدقته وتطبيقاتها المعاصرة

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This paper gives the definition of charity and the ruling of the charity-giver's purchase of his charity and its contemporary applications.

Charity is a grant offered to someone in this life for the sake of Allah Almighty.

Unidentified charity is treated as voluntary charity, but in this context, it refers to both obligatory and voluntary charity.

Scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) have three different opinions about the ruling of the charity-giver's purchase of his charity: permissibility, undesirability, and prohibition.

This is because of the different hadiths that make this issue prohibited or permissible.

Accordingly, each opinion relied one of these hadiths after interpreting the other contradictory hadiths for reconciliation.

In general, they differed in how to bring into agreement these hadiths.

However, it is more likely to argue that the charity giver's purchase of his charity is prohibited.

This applies to either purchasing the charity from the recipient or any other person.

Some of the contemporary applications of the charity-giver's purchase of his charity can include buying from second-hand shops that sell his charity, buying from productive families who received his charity, buying from dish fairs to which he contributed, or from persons in charge of collecting charity.

This applies when the charity offered is identifiable, otherwise the ruling does not hold.

Also, if the organizer of a charity fair is the recipient of the charity, purchasing from it is considered prohibited, otherwise it is permissible.

And Allah knows best.