An office clerk handed over money, and the recipient says he did not receive it

Question

Question: An office clerk, who constantly receives and pays out various sums with people connected with that office, placed before someone the sums due to be paid to him, saying, “Here, count it from this,” while he himself began taking the remainder out of his own pocket, and his attention was diverted from it. When he turned to him again and said, “Count the money; here is the remaining money,” that gentleman said, “You put that sum into your own pocket — where did you give it to me?

Answer

In this case the oath will fall on both of them.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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