{"id":2143,"date":"2019-10-16T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2019-10-16T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:58:40","slug":"purchasing-a-house-in-a-defective-condition-after-being-assured-of-it-not-being-defective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing a house in a defective condition after being assured of it not being defective"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Purchasing a house in a defective condition after being assured of it not being defective<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. I recently purchased a property. At the time of purchasing the property, the agent and the seller of the property did not have access to a certain area of the property. The agent and the seller of the property assured me that it was in good condition. I took their word for it. After I purchased the property, I found that the area in which I was not given access to, was in a very bad condition. In this situation, what are my rights according to Shariah? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> In principle, if a purchaser purchased an item\/commodity from a seller after being assured by the seller of its non-defective condition, and the purchaser found the item\/commodity to be in a defective condition, the purchaser is entitled to return the item\/commodity to the seller or he may keep it.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, if you purchased the house from an agent\/seller after being assured of the houses non-defective condition, and you found the house to be in a defective condition, you are entitled to return the house to the agent\/seller or you may keep the house. <strong><em>(Hidaayah)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing a house in a defective condition after being assured of it not being defective Q. I recently purchased a property. At the time of purchasing<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}