Question: The questioner says: In this time, many people buy and sell over the internet. So they pay for a product in advance by way of a bank card, then the product is sold to him or it will be reach him after a day or two days from the seller. Is this transaction permissible?
Answer: “If this product is well-known, secured, and its characteristics are well known, and described in detailed in the manner in which it will be received, along with a fixed time in which it will be received, then there is no harm in advancing money by way of these companies and by way of the banks. And then after that the product comes as described and he requested. This is transaction is permissible”.
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Translated by
Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan
