Silver plating on a copper vessel

Question

If a vessel of copper or the like is plated with silver or gold and then used, is it permissible or not?

Answer

If a copper vessel is plated with the “water” (a thin wash) of gold or silver in such a way that it cannot be separated from it independently, then there is latitude for it. So it is in “Radd al-Muhtar”, vol. 5, p. 301.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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