Buying and Selling: Ruling on Validity of Sales When Original Vendor’s Property Is Confiscated

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Buying and Selling: Ruling on Validity of Sales When Original Vendor’s Property Is Confiscated

English:

Question #1466:

The sale of some property involved a chain of buyers and sellers. Thereafter, the original vendor’s property is frozen and confiscated. Does this extend to the sale of the property and thereby render it null and void?

Answer #1466:

If it is proved that at the time of transaction the original vendor was banned from selling the property by an Islamic court injunction or despite his control over the property, he was not its owner, i.e., the judge had the right to confiscate the property, the injunction to freezing the property could be applied to the sale thereof, in which case the sale made before the injunction is deemed null and void.
Otherwise, the subsequent order to freeze the person’s possessions should not apply to the sale of the property. Accordingly, it would not make any deal prior to the freezing null and void.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Buying and Selling