The Islamic History Book

The concept of the Islamic world is useful in observing the different periods of Islamic history, similarly useful is an understanding of the identification with a quasi-political community of believers

Islamic Endowments

Ibn Jibreen Ibn Jibreen is it Better to Repair a Waqf Or to Build a New One?

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Jibreen

Is it better to repair a waqf that has fallen into disrepair, or to establish a new waqf? What is the reward of one who restores a waqf that has fallen into disrepair?.

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Prophet Muhammad Prophet Muhammad He Endowed a Piece of Land to Build a Mosque, Then Changed His Mind

Al-Lajnah al-Daa’imahFataawa Islamiyyah, 3/23

There is a rich person among us who donated some land to build a mosque, then someone came along and asked him to make it a school. What should he do?

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Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn is it Permissible to Rent Out a Disused Mosque When it is not Possible to Sell It?

Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen

We have a mosque in a kaafir country where nobody goes to pray any more.

The Muslims who used to live around it have moved to other areas or have gone back to their countries. According to the system here, we are not allowed to sell it, so is it permissible for us to rent it out to a Muslim family?

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Ibn Jibreen Making Gardens for Mosques

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Jibreen

Many of those who build mosques make landscaped gardens on the waqf land around the mosque to make it look beautiful and to provide shade. is this permissible?.

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Ibn Jibreen If the Donor does not Specify the Amount of the Waqf, What Should be Done?

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Jibreen

If the person who is setting up a waqf says, “Take from this waqf and feed the poor” and he dies without having specified the amount of food, what should the supervisor do?.

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Prophet Muhammad Prophet Muhammad Graves are a Waqf -endowment- for Those who are Buried in Them

Al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah

I live in one of the Muslim countries and I have a piece of farmland. When I was digging, I found some ancient graves on the eastern side, but I found nothing in them except some old bones. I need this land, so what is the ruling in this case?

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Islamic Endowments Islamic Endowments are Objects That Belong to Charitable Organizations Considered to be Waqfa?

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Jibreen

Are the vehicles of charitable mosque libraries and charitable organizations considered to be waqfs or not?.

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Good Deeds Good Deeds Rulings on Waqfs

From al-Mulakhkhas al-Fiqhi by Shaykh Saalih ibn Fawzan Aal Fawzaan, p. 158.

What is the Islamic ruling on the issue of waqfs?

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Islamic Endowments Islamic Endowments Ruling on a Waqf That Includes Something That is Wrong

Shaykh Khaalid al-Sabt

A man asked me a question and told me that he has a relative who gave a piece of land as a waqf so that with the income generated by that waqf, meat is to be bought and meals offered in Rajab every year, and food is to be distributed to the poor during that month. He is the one who is taking care of this waqf, but he did not dispose of its income last year. He is asking about the ruling on this waqf, and if it is said that it is not permissible, what should be done with the income of the waqf each year?

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Prophet Muhammad Prophet Muhammad Rulings on Locals Taking Some of the Mus-hafs That the State Distributes to the Pilgrims

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah [16/22]

The state distributes Mus-hafs to the pilgrims, but some locals take them and distribute them to their relatives and friends. What is the ruling on taking these Mus-hafs?.

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