Related Rulings

**Seven Rulings:** **1. Edible Animals:** If the found item is an edible animal, the finder chooses: eat it and pay its value immediately, sell it and keep its price for the owner after noting its description, or preserve and feed it from his own money - he doesn't own it but is reimbursed expenses by the owner. **2. Perishable Items:** If the found item may spoil like fruit, the finder may eat it and pay its value to the owner, or sell it and keep the price until the owner comes. **3. Valuables:** Money, vessels, and goods must be kept as trust and announced in people's gatherings. **4. Conditions for Picking Up:** Found items should only be taken by one who trusts himself with them and can announce them - because announcement is obligatory. **5. Announcement Procedure:** If he picks it up, he notes its characteristics, then announces it for a full year by calling out about it in people's gatherings. If the owner comes and describes it matching its description, he gives it to him. If the owner doesn't come after a year's announcement, it becomes the finder's property. **6. Ownership After Announcement:** The finder owns the found item after announcing it and the year passes - but he may not dispose of it until he knows its characteristics. Whenever its seeker comes with matching description, he gives it to him without proof or oath - as the Prophet ﷺ commanded. **7. Minor's/Foolish Person's Find:** Found items of a minor or foolish person are handled by their guardian, as explained above. **8. Haram (Makkah) Finds:** Found items in the Haram are never owned - announcement must continue perpetually.