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Question ID: #4246
 
Question: Facoring Halal or Haraam
Factoring Halal or Haraam?
 
 
Answered by: Ulamaa ID 12 (United Kingdom)
Date: 14/07/2013 18:29pm

Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Al Jawaab Billahit-Tawfeeq

Respected brother,

Factoring is Haraam.

It is clear usury.

"Factoring is a financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts
receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount in
exchange for immediate money with which to finance continued business."

This is such a classic example of usury. The invoices are in fact debts. Selling
debts is clearly haram in itself. And discounting the debt is another step in
usury.


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